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| Jul 11, '11 | 2011 42nd Annual World Series of Poker | $10,000 WSOP Main Event | 5 | + |
Level 7 Update: Hellmuth Shows Up LateJul 11, '11 Note: Levels are two hours in length. There will be a 90-minute dinner break after level 8. Players Remaining: About 4,000 of 6,865 Blinds: 300-600 with a 75 ante Chip Leaders: 1. Aleksandr Mozhnyako — 255,000 Card Player Chip Counts: Barry Shulman — 60,000 Notables Eliminated: Sam Farha, Mitch Schock, Tatjana Pasalic, James Dempsey, Eric Baldwin, Marsha Wolak, Chris Moorman, Maria Ho, Zachary Clark, Vince Van Patten, Maria Mayrinck, Matt Waxman, Mandy Baker Hands:
There was some confusion over Phil Hellmuth’s second starting day. He was under the impression that he played on Tuesday, but the reality is that he was supposed to start today. Hellmuth had 11,800 to start the day, but after missing the first hour and a half, he had been blinded down to just over 7,000, good for a little over ten big blinds. Luckily for Hellmuth, Mike Matusow was able to convince his hotel’s security to look past a “Do Not Disturb” sign and alert Hellmuth to his mistake. Ladies Champion Eliminated Roger Jensen raised to 1,800 and Marsha Wolak, who won the $1,000 Ladies Event this summer, called from the big blind. The flop fell K Jensen immediately called with K
After winning a bracelet in 2010, Sam Farha was hoping for another solid summer at the WSOP. He’ll have to wait for next year, however, after he recently busted from the main event. Farha was all in on a 9 The turn and river came A Eric Baldwin Busts On a flop of A The other player folded and Baldwin called. The turn was the 6 Paul Pierce Bounces Back Boston Celtics star Paul Pierce has been trending backwards all day long, but a recent hand has him back near the six-figure mark. On a flop of J The turn and river were bricks and Pierce scored the knockout to move up to 90,000 in chips. Poker Tweets:
Player Tags: Phil Hellmuth, Sam Farha, Eric Baldwin, Marsha Wolak |
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| Mar 04, '11 | 2011 NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship | 2011 NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship | 1 | + |
David Oppenheim Defeats Eric BaldwinMar 04, '11
Player Tags: David Oppenheim, Eric Baldwin |
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| Nov 14, '10 | 2010 NAPT Los Angeles | NAPT L.A. Main Event | 3 | + |
Eric Baldwin EliminatedNov 14, '10
We do know that Eric Baldwin is out after shoving K-Q on a flop of J-10-x against Joe Melancon’s set of tens. The tens held and Baldwin is out. Player Tags: Eric Baldwin, Joseph Melancon Eric Baldwin Surges Up The LeaderboardNov 14, '10
The original raiser folded and Baldwin flipped over A Player Tags: Eric Baldwin Level 6 Update: Battle LinesNov 12, '10
Players Remaining: 234 of 330 Eliminations: Cornel Cimpan Big Hands: Esfandiari vs. Fischman The flop read Q Smith vs. Habib Hasan Habib bet 1,100 from middle position and Eric Baldwin made the call from the small blind. Justin Smith made the call from the big blind and the flop fell J Jarvis Doubles Up Opponent The flop read K Jarvis: 8 Turn and River: 3 The cutoff double up on the hand and Jarvis took a hit. Erik Cajelais Doubles Up Erik Cajelais got the last of his chips into the middle preflop and the cutoff made the call. Their cards: Cajelais: 8 Board: 10 Cajelais doubled up on the hand right before the break and survived. Player Tags: Hasan Habib, Scott Fischman, Antonio Esfandiari, Erik Cajelais, Eric Baldwin, Matt Jarvis, Justin Smith |
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| Nov 12, '10 | 2010 NAPT Los Angeles | NAPT L.A. Main Event | 1 | + |
Eric Baldwin EliminatedNov 14, '10
We do know that Eric Baldwin is out after shoving K-Q on a flop of J-10-x against Joe Melancon’s set of tens. The tens held and Baldwin is out. Player Tags: Eric Baldwin, Joseph Melancon Eric Baldwin Surges Up The LeaderboardNov 14, '10
The original raiser folded and Baldwin flipped over A Player Tags: Eric Baldwin Level 6 Update: Battle LinesNov 12, '10
Players Remaining: 234 of 330 Eliminations: Cornel Cimpan Big Hands: Esfandiari vs. Fischman The flop read Q Smith vs. Habib Hasan Habib bet 1,100 from middle position and Eric Baldwin made the call from the small blind. Justin Smith made the call from the big blind and the flop fell J Jarvis Doubles Up Opponent The flop read K Jarvis: 8 Turn and River: 3 The cutoff double up on the hand and Jarvis took a hit. Erik Cajelais Doubles Up Erik Cajelais got the last of his chips into the middle preflop and the cutoff made the call. Their cards: Cajelais: 8 Board: 10 Cajelais doubled up on the hand right before the break and survived. Player Tags: Hasan Habib, Scott Fischman, Antonio Esfandiari, Erik Cajelais, Eric Baldwin, Matt Jarvis, Justin Smith |
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| Sep 25, '10 | 2010 WSOP Europe - London | WSOPE No-Limit Hold'em Championship | 3 | + |
Level 12 Update: Day 2 EndsSep 25, '10
Blinds: 1,000-2,000 with a 300 ante Players Remaining: 66 of 346 Chip Counts: 1. Viktor Blom — 443,200 Average Chip Count: 157,272 Notable Eliminations: Eric Baldwin Big Hands: Daniel Negreanu is Really Good at the WSOP Europe Daniel Negreanu furthered his efforts to make a third WSOP Europe final table during the last level of the night. In a recent hand Negreanu checked a Q Eric Baldwin Eliminated The reigning Card Player Player of the Year, Eric Baldwin, has busted out of the tournament during the last level of the day. He opened a pot from the cutoff for 7,000 and Quinn Do reraised to 20,000 from the small blind. Baldwin moved all in and Do made the call. Their cards: Baldwin: A Board: Q Baldwin lost the hand and Do grew his stack to 136,000. Phil Laak Eliminated Phil Laak was eliminated from the tournament when his A-K ran into pocket fours and there was no help on the board for the Unabomber. He still leaves London with his first gold bracelet. Making for a successful jump across the pond. Praz Bansi Eliminated Praz Bansi moved all in for 33,100 preflop and Remy Biechel made the call. Their cards: Bansi: 9 Board: Q Bansi was eliminated after the hand and Biechel held 130,000. Arnaud Mattern Takes a Nice Pot off Barny Boatman Barny Boatman raised to 5,100 under the gun and Arnaud Mattern reraised to 14,400 from middle position preflop. Boatman made the call and then both players checked a K Quintessential Cousineau Tony Cousineau was down to his final 14,000 when he decided to call a bet from Clint Coffee that was devised to put him all in. Cousineau was in the lead with pocket queens against the A-3 of Coffee, but the board brought a third ace and Cousineau was eliminated. Player Tags: Tony Cousineau, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Laak, Barny Boatman, Quinn Do, Eric Baldwin, Arnaud Mattern, Praz Bansi, Remy Biechel |
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| Jul 16, '10 | 2010 41st Annual World Series of Poker | $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event | 11 | + |
Level 26 Hour Two: Clements Chips Up, Grinder Slips a BitJul 16, '10 Blinds: 25,000-50,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 64 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 3,378,000 Card Player Chip Counts: Tony Dunst – 1,020,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Theo Jorgensen – 10,900,000 Notable Eliminations: 72. Habib Khanis – $114,205 Player Twitter Accounts Big Hands:
On a flop of 10 Subramaniam checked and Clements bet 200,000. Subramaniam made it 500,000 to go and Clements didn’t go anywhere, as he tossed in the extra 300,000. The river was the the 7 Subramaniam showed K Lee Gets Best of Kostritsyn Alexander Kostritsyn raised from early position and Redmond Lee made the call from the big blind. The two saw a flop heads-up of 6 Lee led out into the preflop raiser for 175,000. Kostritsyn made the call and the J Parras Knocks Out Two Richard Morgan raised under-the-gun and Habib Khanis three-bet all-in for his last 650,000. Eduardo Parras moved all-in for his 1,500,000 and Richard Morgan made the call, putting his own 1,300,000 stack into the middle. Parras had both players called as all three hands were turned face-up. Morgan: K The flop came 9
Michael Mizrachi fired 200,000 on a fop of 6 Mizrachi checked and Sijpkens moved all-in for 1,375,000 and Mizrachi made the call. Mizrachi tabled 7 The river was the J Levy KO’s Canali Pierre Canali got all-in preflop against Adam Levy. Levy tabled K Baldwin Climbing We caught up with this hand on the river with Ismail Erkenov leading out for 200,000 with the board reading 7 After a while, Erkenov finally made the call and Baldwin pulled his chips back and tabled his hand as he showed J
Duy Le raised to 120,000 from middle position and John Racner three-bet to 310,000. Le made the call and they saw a flop of 10 The turn was the 7 Le showed 10 Marcel Cole Eliminated Marcel moved his last 905,000 into the middle from under-the-gun with 8 The board ran out A
John Dolan rasied to 115,000 and Edward Ochana made the call. Peter Jetten then squeezed all-in for 780,000. Dolan made the call and Ochana got out of the way. Jetten tabled Q Baldwin Drops a Big One On a flop of 9 The turn was the Q Baldwin tabled 10 Meenakshi Subramaniam Eliminated On the turn the board read 6 Subramaniam moved all-in for 900,000 and Nguyen made the call. Subramaniam showed 8
Peter Jetten raised on the button to 125,000. Jacobo Fernandez three-bet to 475,000 from the big blind. Jetten moved all-in and Fernandez made the call. Fernandez showed J Jetten couldn’t find a five on the turn or the river and slipped to 900,000. Fernandez doubled up to 1,600,000. John Armbrust Eliminated John Armbrust made it 125,000 under-the-gun and Redmond Lee moved all-in on the button. Armbrust made the call and was at risk of elimination. Armbrust showed A Player Tags: Michael Mizrachi, Scott Clements, Peter Jetten, Duy Le, Eric Baldwin, John Racener, Adam Levy, Alexander Kostritsyn Level 25, Hour One: Eric Baldwin Doubles Up, Jorgensen Takes Chip LeadJul 15, '10 Blinds: 20,000-40,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 85 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 2,587,882 Card Player Chip Counts: Tony Dunst – 2,360,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Theo Jorgensen – 8,060,000 Notable Eliminations: 86. Juha Helppi — $79,806 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Jeff Banghart moved all in for 435,000 from the cutoff and Bryn Kenney made the call from the button. The blinds mucked and the hands were turned. Kenney: A Kenney was dominating but the board ran out 10 Carroll Busts James Carroll moved all in and Evgeny Shnayder made the call, turning over A The board ran out 10
Eric Baldwin doubled through Andrew Brokos at the end of the previous level and he just did it again. Brokos raised to 80,000 from the button and Eric Baldwin moved in for 780,000 from the small blind. Brokos made the call and the hands were shown. Brokos: A The flop came J Clements Has Aces Cracked Scott Clements raised to 95,000 preflop and Brian Jensen moved all in for 680,000. Clements snapped him off with pocket aces. Jensen held pocket tens and the flop fell K
Picking up the action on the turn, the board read 7 Theo Jorgensen snap-called and turned over K The river was the 4 Left In The Deck Last Level Of The Night The players were originally scheduled to play five complete levels today. However, Jack Effel has announced that this will be the last level of the night, meaning the field will exit one hour earlier than expected. Furthermore, if the players begin to bust at an accelerated rate, play may be stopped even earlier. The word around the Amazon Room is that the target number of players to start Day 7 on Friday is 81, which was about 15 eliminations away at the start of the level. Player Tags: James Carroll, Theo Jorgensen, Scott Clements, Andrew Brokos, Eric Baldwin, Bryn Kenney Level 24, Hour Two: Dunst Doubles UpJul 15, '10 Note: Players have gone on an unscheduled 20-minute break to color up the T1,000 chips. Blinds: 15,000-30,000 with a 4,000 ante Players Remaining: 96 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 2,287,187 Card Player Chip Counts: Andrew Brokos – 2,000,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. John Racener – 6,985,000 Notable Eliminations: 100. Christian Harder — $57,102 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Picking up the action on a flop of J Chamberlain: A Chamberlain held the aces but needed to fade the spade draw. The turn was harmless with the 10 Jetten Takes One Duy Le raised to 90,000 and Peter Jetten made the call. Both players saw the flop come down K Jetten made the call and the turn was the 6
Tony Dunst raised preflop from under the gun and Edward Ochana made the call in the small blind. The flop came down 7 Dunst: 9 Ochana flopped top pair but Dunst was ahead with the overpair. The board finished off A Jorgensen Takes One Down Picking up the action on the turn, the board read 10 Jorgensen fired 300,000 and was called again. Jorgensen then showed A
Getty Mattingsley was all in for 761,000 preflop and Alexander Kostritsyn made the call. Here were the hands. Kostritsyn: A It was a race and Kostritsyn jumped ahead on the Q Bardah With Some Aggression Ronnie Bardah raised to 80,000 and Gabriel Alarie made it 280,000 to go from the small blind. The big blind mucked and the action was back on Bardah. He shoved for 1.12 million and Alarie took a session in the tank. He decided to release his hand and Bardah took a nice pot without the bother of a flop. He was up to 1.5 million.
Eric Baldwin raised to 76,000 preflop and David Baker moved all in from the small blind for 581,000. Baldwin made the call and the hands were turned over. Baldwin: A The race was on and each player got a piece of the Q A few hands later, Baldwin moved in for 340,000 and Andrew Brokos made the call. Brokos turned over A Player Tags: Theo Jorgensen, Ronnie Bardah, Peter Jetten, Eric Baldwin, Gabriel Alarie, Tony Dunst, Alexander Kostritsyn, Brandon Steven, Getty Mattingsley, Daniel Chamberlain Level 23, Hour Two: Dunst Loses Heartbreaker, Last Woman Standing EliminatedJul 15, '10 Blinds: 12,000-24,000 with a 3,000 ante Players Remaining: 115 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 1,909,304 Card Player Chip Counts: Andrew Brokos – 1,230,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Joseph Cheong – 5,540,000 Notable Eliminations: 116. Robert Mizrachi — $57,102 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Ian Gordon moved all in for a little over 1 million and Tony Dunst snapped him off. Gordon turned over A Another player at the table announced he mucked the case A Dunst was drawing dead and to add insult to injury, the board finished off 2 Guan Eliminated Javier Martinez raised to 36,000 from the cutoff and Mozheng Guan repopped to 84,000 from the button. Martinez called and the flop came down A Martinez led with 110,000 and Guan moved in for 480,000. Martinez made the call and turned over A The turn was the 3
Breeze Zuckerman, the last woman standing, moved all in preflop and Eric Baldwin looked her up from the button. Baldwin: A Baldwin had Zuckerman in bad shape, but the flop gave her some help when it fell K Baker Doubles Up David Baker moved all in for 200,000 preflop and David Assouline looked him up. Baker turned over 10 The board ran out Q
Sebastian Panny and Matthew Jarvis tangled in a huge pot that saw Panny all in preflop. Here were their hands: Panny: 10 Panny was in trouble and the flop came K Panny, who was in the top 10 chip counts early in the day, was sent crashing to the rail. Jarvis was at 4.6 million. Pettit Gets Short, Then Busts Michael Pettit found the bulk of his chips in the middle against Jacob Tyler after the flop fell K Pettit was left with just 8,000 after Tyler was all in and Pettit tabled 10 The flush or straight never came and Pettit lost the pot. He would bust a few hands later.
Gualter Salles was all in preflop against Adam Levy. The cards were then turned over. Salles: A Levy was dominating and he put a vice-grip on the hand when the flop fell Q
The 2010 Main Event is down to one Mizrachi brother. Robert Mizrachi moved in for his last 196,000 from under the gun and Josue Sauvageau made the call from the cutoff. Mizrachi: A Mizrachi was dominated and the flop brought no help as it fell J Player Tags: Robert Mizrachi, Eric Baldwin, Ian Gordon, Gualter Salles, Adam Levy, Tony Dunst, Javier Martinez, Sebastian Panny, Mozheng Guan, Breeze Zuckerman, Josue Sauvageau Level 22, Hour Two: Theo Tran Doubles UpJul 15, '10 Blinds: 10,000-20,000 with a 3,000 ante Players Remaining: 134 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 1,638,582 Card Player Chip Counts: Andrew Brokos – 1,305,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Robert Pisano – 5,500,000 Notable Eliminations: 140. Phil Galfond — $57,102 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Robert Pisano raised to 40,000 preflop and Theo Tran moved all in for 155,000. Pisano made the call and the cards were turned over. Tran: A The classic race was on and the flop fell J Savage Eliminated Matthew Schreiber raised from the button and Craig Savage moved in for 375,000. Schreiber made the call and turned over A Baldwin Needs No Flop Breeze Zuckerman raised to 61,000 and Eric Baldwin raised to 300,000 from the small blind. Zuckerman mucked her hand, flashing the A
Picking up the action after the turn, the board read J Lodden bet 300,000 and Eriquezzo looked him up one last time. Lodden turned over A Lodden scored the pot and he was at 2.6 million while Eriquezzo was at 945,000. Rainey Betters Affleck Nicholas Rainey raised to 47,000 and Matt Affleck made the call from the big blind. The flop fell J Affleck called and the river was the K
Picking up the action on the flop, the board read K The turn was the K Mizrachi’s aggression gave him the pot and he was up to 5.35 million. Brikis Knocks Out Pellegrino Picking up the action on the flop, the board read Q Brikis: 9 Brikis flopped a set to better Pellegrino’s top pair. The board finished off Q
Phil Galfond made it 48,000 to go from under the gun. Josue Sauvageau made it 128,000 and the action came back around to Galfond. Galfond then took a long tank session, resulting in the clock getting called on him. He decided to move all in and Sauvageau snapped it off. Galfond: 6 Galfond was in deep trouble and the board ran out K Card Player TV Day 6 Of The Main Event Gets Underway Player Tags: Michael Mizrachi, Phil Galfond, Theo Tran, Eric Baldwin, Johnny Lodden, Nick Rainey, Matt Affleck, Josh Brikis, Bryan Pellegrino Level 21 Hour One Update: Scotty Nguyen EliminatedJul 14, '10 Blinds: 8,000-16,000 with a 2,000 ante 1. Evan Lamprea — 3,900,000 Praz Bansi
Garrett Adelstein opend to 36,000 from the cutoff and Johnny Chan three-bet to 101,000 from the button. Action was folded back to Adelstein and he reraised all in for 970,000. Chan called with the K Serge Didisheim Eliminated Serge Didisheim moved all in for 195,000. Manuel Davidian called with the A Marceo Dabus Doubles Up Marceo Dabus was all in preflop for 395,000 with the A
Robert Mizrachi bet 42,000 from middle position and Matthew Reed three-bet to 115,000. Mizrachi made the call. The flop came J Peter Jetten Eliminates a Player Laurentius Sloot was all in for 124,000 with the A Scotty Nguyen Eliminated Scotty Nguyen was getting short when he moved all in preflop with A-J. Unfortunately for Nguyen, he ran into the pocket kings of his opponent. The board offered no help and he was gone.
On an A Sam Haddad Eliminated Sam Haddad moved all in preflop for 167,000. Duy Le called. Haddad tabled the A Eric Baldwin Doubles Up a Player Jean Pasqualini shoved from the small blind for 165,000. Eric Baldwin called in the big blind. Baldwin tabled the K Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Player Tags: Robert Mizrachi, Scotty Nguyen, Johnny Chan, Serge Didisheim, Peter Jetten, Eric Baldwin, Praz Bansi Level 18 Hour One Update: Jason Mercier and Vanessa Selbst EliminatedJul 14, '10 Blinds: 4,000-8,000 with a 1,000 ante 1. Daniel Chamberlain – 2,460,000 Bart Hanson Big Hands:
We caught up with the hand on the river with over 150,000 in the middle and the board reading A The bet sent his opponent into the tank and the ESPN cameras rushed over to film the action. After a minute or two of thinking, his opponent slid out a call and Baldwin tabled the A Baldwin is up to 625,000 with that pot. Jean-Robert Bellande Rivers a Straight We caught up with the action on the river with Jean-Robert Bellande betting 85,000 on a board of 5 “I’ve been planning this out for a while now,” Bellande said. “You get it in behind and just get there and boom! You have a stack.” Bellande does have a stack as he sits with 530,000. Sam Farha Doubles Up Sam Farha moved all in for 85,000 and Isaac Baron made the call. Farha exposed the A Jason Mercier Doubles Up Robert Mizrachi, Eliminated Shortly Thereafter Jason Mercier bet 19,000 from middle position and Robert Mizrachi three-bet to 55,000 on the button. Mercier moved all in and Mizrachi called 338,000 for his tournament life. Mizrachi exposed the K-K and was way ahead of the 5-5 of Mercier. The board ran out Q-10-8-K-9 and Mizrachi doubled to 690,000. Mercier was left with 133,000 after the hand. Later in the level, Jason Mercier open-shoved in late position with the A Bruce Buffer Eliminated With a board reading 10
Vanessa Selbst was down to about 150,000 when she shoved with the A Dan Lu Doubles Up a Player Dominykas Karmazinas shoved from early position for 55,000 and Dan Lu called on the button. Karmazinas was at risk with the A Jean-Robert Bellande Doubles Up an Opponent Jean Robert Bellande limped from late position and Alper Sar shoved for 80,000. Bellande called with the A
The flop read 8 Jacobs’ All-In Forces Folds Alex Jacobs raised to 18,000 from late position and was called by both blinds. The flop came 10 Jacobs is sitting with 200,000 after he stacked his newly found chips. Sammy Farha Crippled, Eliminated Ryan Milisits moved all-in for 102,000 from middle position and Sam Farha made the call from late position. Milisits showed A The board ran out 10 Left in the Deck Jean-Robert Has Ideas Jean-Robert was talking at his table about the ideas he has for the Tournament of Champions. He thinks that the more bracelets you have, the more chips you should add to your stack. He said that the tournament directors shot the idea down, but he thinks it would add a nice twist to the tournament and give people more incentives to win bracelets. Former Card Player Intern Crusing Jameson Singer, a former Card Player intern in 2006 currently is hovering around the 1 million chip mark. Singer now plays tournaments full-time online and is known as “TheDrake.” Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Player Tags: Sam Farha, Jean-Robert Bellande, Bruce Buffer, Vanessa Selbst, Eric Baldwin, Dan Lu, Jason Mercier Level 17 Hour Two Update: Lots of Eliminations EarlyJul 14, '10 Blinds: 3,000-6,000 with a 1,000 ante 1. Tony Dunst – 1,470,000 Lauren Kling
Bernard Lee got his last 41,000 into the middle prefop against Dragan Galic. Galic tabled A Lee flopped a set and doubled up to 100,000 as the board ran out 8 Billirakis Scores an Early KO Jamie Robbins and Steve Billirakis got tangled up in a preflop raising war which led to Robbins committing the last of his chips in the middle and Billirakis making the call. Robbins tabled K-Q and Billirakis showed A Matros Crippled Compliments of a Cold Deck Matt Matros and Kevin Stani got all of Stani’s chips in the middle preflop. Matros showed K Matros was eliminated just an orbit later.
Andrew Jeter moved in his last 42,000 from the small blind after Johnny Chan had raised under-the-gun. Chan made the call and it was off to showdown. Jeter showed K Soulier Gone Fabrice Soulier moved all-in for his last 79,000 from the cutoff and David Emmons three-bet from the button to isolate and both blinds folded. Soulier was in trouble when Emmons showed A Buchman Eliminated as Rice Doubles Shawn Rice and Eric Buchman got into a prelflop battle with Rice and Buchman being on the button and in the big blind. They ended up getting all-in with very similar stack sizes. Buchman showed K The board ran out 5 Hougaard Slips Isaac Krantz moved all-in on a flop of J Hougaard showed pocket kings, but had to fade some cards when Krantz showed 5
Brian Rast raised from early position and Greg Schaefer three-bet from middle position. Rast made the call and the fop came Q The turn was the 10 David Peters Doubles Up David Peters got his stack of about 300,000 in preflop with the A Brett Richey Doubles Up A player in middle position bet 16,000 and Brett Richey moved all in for 209,000. His opponent went into the tank before eventually making the call. Richey exposed the A Shannon Shorr Eliminated On a board of K
Lauren Kling moved all in preflop for 52,000 with the A Eric Baldwin Doubles Up a Player A player in late position moved all in for 93,000 and it was folded to Eric Baldwin in the small blind. Baldwin tanked before finally moving all in over the top to force the big blind out. Baldwin’s opponent tabled the Q Twitter Accounts Bernard Lee Player Tags: Eric Buchman, Johnny Chan, Fabrice Soulier, Steve Billirakis, Bernard Lee, Brian Rast, Shannon Shorr, Eric Baldwin, Lauren Kling Level Five Hour Two Update: Baron Climbing The RanksJul 09, '10 Blinds: 200-400 with a 50 ante Players Remaining: 2,412 out of 2,412 Average Chip Count: Card Player Chip Counts Justin Marchand – 23,400 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Corwin Cole – 228,200 Notable Eliminations: Mike Sexton Big Hands:
Dennis Phillips got his last 9,225 in the middle preflop with A The flop was K A few hands later, Phillips raised to 1,180 from the hijack and the player in the big blind made the call. The flop came down A Phillips bet 1,500 and the big blind check-raised to 3,300. Phillips thought for a bit and then repopped it to 7,500. The big blind thought for a few moments of his own and then released his hand, turning over the A Phillips took in the pot and he was at 24,000. Ho Can’t Call Picking up the action after the flop came down J The turn was the J
After the flop came down 5 Seat 5 led out for 3,000 and Baldwin made the call again. The river was the 7 Baldwin did the same and seat 5 tabled Q “The curse is finally over,” Baldwin said to the ESPN crew surrounding the table. “I finally won one with you guys here.” He was at 70,000 after the hand. Cada Gives One Up Reigning champion Joe Cada was in the small blind heads up with the big blind. On a flop of 2 Cada made the call and the 6 Sexton Getting Short, Then Busts Mike Sexton made it 1,200 to go from under the gun and action folded around to the big blind, who called. The flop came 2
Isaac Baron called a large preflop raise from the player in seat 4 and saw a flop of K On the K The 5 Baron had around 134,000 in chips after the hand. Chan Picking Up Where He Left Off Johnny Chan left his day 1 as one of the tournament’s chip leaders. He picked up where he left off early in day 2a. Chan limped in from the small blind and the big blind checked the action. The flop ran 6 It was a small win, but Chan now has around 164,000 in chips.
A player raised to 1,200 preflop and Scotty Nguyen made the call from the small blind. Darryll Fish also called from the big blind and the three players saw a flop of J All three players checked and the turn was the A His opponent mucked the A Somerville Surges All we were able to see was Jason Somerville showing down 3 Somerville is now up to 87,400 with his newly acquired chips. Tiffany Michelle Doubles There were four limpers in front of her and then Tiffany Michelle raised to 3,500 on the button. The player in the small blind made it 5,700 more to Michelle and she quickly called. Michelle said call and then realized that she had said call and lamented how she had intended to move in for her remaining 5,500. The flop was 4 Michelle tabled 7 Player Twitter Accounts: Barry Shulman Player Tags: Scotty Nguyen, Johnny Chan, Mike Sexton, Maria Ho, Jason Somerville, Isaac Baron, Eric Baldwin, Tiffany Michelle, Dennis Phillips, Joseph Cada Level One Hour Two Update: Dario Minieri EliminatedJul 07, '10 Blinds: 50-100 Average Chip Counts 30,000 Notable Chip Counts: David Williams – 80,000 Card Player Chip Counts: Steve Murphy — 37,800 Notable Eliminations: Dario Minieri Big Hands:
The player in seat 2 raised to 325 preflop and Paul Magrill made the call from late position. David Oppenheim also made the call and the flop came down 7 Seat 2 and Magrill each checked and Oppenheim bet 500. Seat 2 made the call but Magrill got out of the way. The turn was the 8 The river was the Q “You got it,” Oppenheim said as he tapped the table. “No pair.” Seat 2 tabled 7 Eric Baldwin Loses Minimum Picking up the action on the flop, the board read K The player in seat 7 checked and Eric Baldwin did the same. The A Seat 7 then tabled K Chau Giang Takes One Off Antonio Esfandiari On a board of A Christian Harder Wins with Set-Over-Set Christian Harder bet a Q
A player from middle position bet 4,000 on a J Gray Cuts Isaia With His Diamonds Picking up the action after the board had run out J Jason Gray fired 4,000 and Alessio Isaia decided to look him up. Gray turned over Q
The player in seat 2 raised to 300 and Matt Hawrilenko made the call from the button. The blinds also called and the flop came down A Action was checked to Hawrilenko and he bet 500. Everyone threw in the call and the turn was the 2 Action checked to seat 2 and he bet 800. Hawrilenko folded and the blinds followed suit as seat 2 took the pot. Hawrilenko was at 33,000 after the hand. Sexton Not Happy About His Runner-Runner Flush Mike Sexton was heads up with the player in seat 3 when the flop came J The river was the 6 As Sexton thought it over seat 3 said, “Runner-runner,” and smiled, alluding to the runner-runner flush he had made. Sexton responded with, “I see that. The thing is, I made runner-runner.” Sexton eventually called, and sure enough both players were telling the truth. Their hands: Seat 3: A Seat 3 showed the ace-high flush and Sexton’s 10-high flush was no good. He sighed and turned to watch the conclusion of the Germany-Spain World Cup action. He had around 26,400 in chips after the loss. Jaka Makes Big Lay Down Entering the action late, Faraz Jaka looked pained as he pondered his opponent’s bet of 13,000 on a board of A CardPlayer TV Day 1C Begins Player Tags: Antonio Esfandiari, Chau Giang, Matt Hawrilenko, Jason Gray, Dario Minieri, Eric Baldwin, Christian Harder, Alessio Isaia |
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| Jul 15, '10 | 2010 41st Annual World Series of Poker | $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event | 10 | + |
Level 26 Hour Two: Clements Chips Up, Grinder Slips a BitJul 16, '10 Blinds: 25,000-50,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 64 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 3,378,000 Card Player Chip Counts: Tony Dunst – 1,020,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Theo Jorgensen – 10,900,000 Notable Eliminations: 72. Habib Khanis – $114,205 Player Twitter Accounts Big Hands:
On a flop of 10 Subramaniam checked and Clements bet 200,000. Subramaniam made it 500,000 to go and Clements didn’t go anywhere, as he tossed in the extra 300,000. The river was the the 7 Subramaniam showed K Lee Gets Best of Kostritsyn Alexander Kostritsyn raised from early position and Redmond Lee made the call from the big blind. The two saw a flop heads-up of 6 Lee led out into the preflop raiser for 175,000. Kostritsyn made the call and the J Parras Knocks Out Two Richard Morgan raised under-the-gun and Habib Khanis three-bet all-in for his last 650,000. Eduardo Parras moved all-in for his 1,500,000 and Richard Morgan made the call, putting his own 1,300,000 stack into the middle. Parras had both players called as all three hands were turned face-up. Morgan: K The flop came 9
Michael Mizrachi fired 200,000 on a fop of 6 Mizrachi checked and Sijpkens moved all-in for 1,375,000 and Mizrachi made the call. Mizrachi tabled 7 The river was the J Levy KO’s Canali Pierre Canali got all-in preflop against Adam Levy. Levy tabled K Baldwin Climbing We caught up with this hand on the river with Ismail Erkenov leading out for 200,000 with the board reading 7 After a while, Erkenov finally made the call and Baldwin pulled his chips back and tabled his hand as he showed J
Duy Le raised to 120,000 from middle position and John Racner three-bet to 310,000. Le made the call and they saw a flop of 10 The turn was the 7 Le showed 10 Marcel Cole Eliminated Marcel moved his last 905,000 into the middle from under-the-gun with 8 The board ran out A
John Dolan rasied to 115,000 and Edward Ochana made the call. Peter Jetten then squeezed all-in for 780,000. Dolan made the call and Ochana got out of the way. Jetten tabled Q Baldwin Drops a Big One On a flop of 9 The turn was the Q Baldwin tabled 10 Meenakshi Subramaniam Eliminated On the turn the board read 6 Subramaniam moved all-in for 900,000 and Nguyen made the call. Subramaniam showed 8
Peter Jetten raised on the button to 125,000. Jacobo Fernandez three-bet to 475,000 from the big blind. Jetten moved all-in and Fernandez made the call. Fernandez showed J Jetten couldn’t find a five on the turn or the river and slipped to 900,000. Fernandez doubled up to 1,600,000. John Armbrust Eliminated John Armbrust made it 125,000 under-the-gun and Redmond Lee moved all-in on the button. Armbrust made the call and was at risk of elimination. Armbrust showed A Player Tags: Michael Mizrachi, Scott Clements, Peter Jetten, Duy Le, Eric Baldwin, John Racener, Adam Levy, Alexander Kostritsyn Level 25, Hour One: Eric Baldwin Doubles Up, Jorgensen Takes Chip LeadJul 15, '10 Blinds: 20,000-40,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 85 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 2,587,882 Card Player Chip Counts: Tony Dunst – 2,360,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Theo Jorgensen – 8,060,000 Notable Eliminations: 86. Juha Helppi — $79,806 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Jeff Banghart moved all in for 435,000 from the cutoff and Bryn Kenney made the call from the button. The blinds mucked and the hands were turned. Kenney: A Kenney was dominating but the board ran out 10 Carroll Busts James Carroll moved all in and Evgeny Shnayder made the call, turning over A The board ran out 10
Eric Baldwin doubled through Andrew Brokos at the end of the previous level and he just did it again. Brokos raised to 80,000 from the button and Eric Baldwin moved in for 780,000 from the small blind. Brokos made the call and the hands were shown. Brokos: A The flop came J Clements Has Aces Cracked Scott Clements raised to 95,000 preflop and Brian Jensen moved all in for 680,000. Clements snapped him off with pocket aces. Jensen held pocket tens and the flop fell K
Picking up the action on the turn, the board read 7 Theo Jorgensen snap-called and turned over K The river was the 4 Left In The Deck Last Level Of The Night The players were originally scheduled to play five complete levels today. However, Jack Effel has announced that this will be the last level of the night, meaning the field will exit one hour earlier than expected. Furthermore, if the players begin to bust at an accelerated rate, play may be stopped even earlier. The word around the Amazon Room is that the target number of players to start Day 7 on Friday is 81, which was about 15 eliminations away at the start of the level. Player Tags: James Carroll, Theo Jorgensen, Scott Clements, Andrew Brokos, Eric Baldwin, Bryn Kenney Level 24, Hour Two: Dunst Doubles UpJul 15, '10 Note: Players have gone on an unscheduled 20-minute break to color up the T1,000 chips. Blinds: 15,000-30,000 with a 4,000 ante Players Remaining: 96 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 2,287,187 Card Player Chip Counts: Andrew Brokos – 2,000,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. John Racener – 6,985,000 Notable Eliminations: 100. Christian Harder — $57,102 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Picking up the action on a flop of J Chamberlain: A Chamberlain held the aces but needed to fade the spade draw. The turn was harmless with the 10 Jetten Takes One Duy Le raised to 90,000 and Peter Jetten made the call. Both players saw the flop come down K Jetten made the call and the turn was the 6
Tony Dunst raised preflop from under the gun and Edward Ochana made the call in the small blind. The flop came down 7 Dunst: 9 Ochana flopped top pair but Dunst was ahead with the overpair. The board finished off A Jorgensen Takes One Down Picking up the action on the turn, the board read 10 Jorgensen fired 300,000 and was called again. Jorgensen then showed A
Getty Mattingsley was all in for 761,000 preflop and Alexander Kostritsyn made the call. Here were the hands. Kostritsyn: A It was a race and Kostritsyn jumped ahead on the Q Bardah With Some Aggression Ronnie Bardah raised to 80,000 and Gabriel Alarie made it 280,000 to go from the small blind. The big blind mucked and the action was back on Bardah. He shoved for 1.12 million and Alarie took a session in the tank. He decided to release his hand and Bardah took a nice pot without the bother of a flop. He was up to 1.5 million.
Eric Baldwin raised to 76,000 preflop and David Baker moved all in from the small blind for 581,000. Baldwin made the call and the hands were turned over. Baldwin: A The race was on and each player got a piece of the Q A few hands later, Baldwin moved in for 340,000 and Andrew Brokos made the call. Brokos turned over A Player Tags: Theo Jorgensen, Ronnie Bardah, Peter Jetten, Eric Baldwin, Gabriel Alarie, Tony Dunst, Alexander Kostritsyn, Brandon Steven, Getty Mattingsley, Daniel Chamberlain Level 23, Hour Two: Dunst Loses Heartbreaker, Last Woman Standing EliminatedJul 15, '10 Blinds: 12,000-24,000 with a 3,000 ante Players Remaining: 115 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 1,909,304 Card Player Chip Counts: Andrew Brokos – 1,230,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Joseph Cheong – 5,540,000 Notable Eliminations: 116. Robert Mizrachi — $57,102 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Ian Gordon moved all in for a little over 1 million and Tony Dunst snapped him off. Gordon turned over A Another player at the table announced he mucked the case A Dunst was drawing dead and to add insult to injury, the board finished off 2 Guan Eliminated Javier Martinez raised to 36,000 from the cutoff and Mozheng Guan repopped to 84,000 from the button. Martinez called and the flop came down A Martinez led with 110,000 and Guan moved in for 480,000. Martinez made the call and turned over A The turn was the 3
Breeze Zuckerman, the last woman standing, moved all in preflop and Eric Baldwin looked her up from the button. Baldwin: A Baldwin had Zuckerman in bad shape, but the flop gave her some help when it fell K Baker Doubles Up David Baker moved all in for 200,000 preflop and David Assouline looked him up. Baker turned over 10 The board ran out Q
Sebastian Panny and Matthew Jarvis tangled in a huge pot that saw Panny all in preflop. Here were their hands: Panny: 10 Panny was in trouble and the flop came K Panny, who was in the top 10 chip counts early in the day, was sent crashing to the rail. Jarvis was at 4.6 million. Pettit Gets Short, Then Busts Michael Pettit found the bulk of his chips in the middle against Jacob Tyler after the flop fell K Pettit was left with just 8,000 after Tyler was all in and Pettit tabled 10 The flush or straight never came and Pettit lost the pot. He would bust a few hands later.
Gualter Salles was all in preflop against Adam Levy. The cards were then turned over. Salles: A Levy was dominating and he put a vice-grip on the hand when the flop fell Q
The 2010 Main Event is down to one Mizrachi brother. Robert Mizrachi moved in for his last 196,000 from under the gun and Josue Sauvageau made the call from the cutoff. Mizrachi: A Mizrachi was dominated and the flop brought no help as it fell J Player Tags: Robert Mizrachi, Eric Baldwin, Ian Gordon, Gualter Salles, Adam Levy, Tony Dunst, Javier Martinez, Sebastian Panny, Mozheng Guan, Breeze Zuckerman, Josue Sauvageau Level 22, Hour Two: Theo Tran Doubles UpJul 15, '10 Blinds: 10,000-20,000 with a 3,000 ante Players Remaining: 134 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 1,638,582 Card Player Chip Counts: Andrew Brokos – 1,305,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Robert Pisano – 5,500,000 Notable Eliminations: 140. Phil Galfond — $57,102 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Robert Pisano raised to 40,000 preflop and Theo Tran moved all in for 155,000. Pisano made the call and the cards were turned over. Tran: A The classic race was on and the flop fell J Savage Eliminated Matthew Schreiber raised from the button and Craig Savage moved in for 375,000. Schreiber made the call and turned over A Baldwin Needs No Flop Breeze Zuckerman raised to 61,000 and Eric Baldwin raised to 300,000 from the small blind. Zuckerman mucked her hand, flashing the A
Picking up the action after the turn, the board read J Lodden bet 300,000 and Eriquezzo looked him up one last time. Lodden turned over A Lodden scored the pot and he was at 2.6 million while Eriquezzo was at 945,000. Rainey Betters Affleck Nicholas Rainey raised to 47,000 and Matt Affleck made the call from the big blind. The flop fell J Affleck called and the river was the K
Picking up the action on the flop, the board read K The turn was the K Mizrachi’s aggression gave him the pot and he was up to 5.35 million. Brikis Knocks Out Pellegrino Picking up the action on the flop, the board read Q Brikis: 9 Brikis flopped a set to better Pellegrino’s top pair. The board finished off Q
Phil Galfond made it 48,000 to go from under the gun. Josue Sauvageau made it 128,000 and the action came back around to Galfond. Galfond then took a long tank session, resulting in the clock getting called on him. He decided to move all in and Sauvageau snapped it off. Galfond: 6 Galfond was in deep trouble and the board ran out K Card Player TV Day 6 Of The Main Event Gets Underway Player Tags: Michael Mizrachi, Phil Galfond, Theo Tran, Eric Baldwin, Johnny Lodden, Nick Rainey, Matt Affleck, Josh Brikis, Bryan Pellegrino Level 21 Hour One Update: Scotty Nguyen EliminatedJul 14, '10 Blinds: 8,000-16,000 with a 2,000 ante 1. Evan Lamprea — 3,900,000 Praz Bansi
Garrett Adelstein opend to 36,000 from the cutoff and Johnny Chan three-bet to 101,000 from the button. Action was folded back to Adelstein and he reraised all in for 970,000. Chan called with the K Serge Didisheim Eliminated Serge Didisheim moved all in for 195,000. Manuel Davidian called with the A Marceo Dabus Doubles Up Marceo Dabus was all in preflop for 395,000 with the A
Robert Mizrachi bet 42,000 from middle position and Matthew Reed three-bet to 115,000. Mizrachi made the call. The flop came J Peter Jetten Eliminates a Player Laurentius Sloot was all in for 124,000 with the A Scotty Nguyen Eliminated Scotty Nguyen was getting short when he moved all in preflop with A-J. Unfortunately for Nguyen, he ran into the pocket kings of his opponent. The board offered no help and he was gone.
On an A Sam Haddad Eliminated Sam Haddad moved all in preflop for 167,000. Duy Le called. Haddad tabled the A Eric Baldwin Doubles Up a Player Jean Pasqualini shoved from the small blind for 165,000. Eric Baldwin called in the big blind. Baldwin tabled the K Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Player Tags: Robert Mizrachi, Scotty Nguyen, Johnny Chan, Serge Didisheim, Peter Jetten, Eric Baldwin, Praz Bansi Level 18 Hour One Update: Jason Mercier and Vanessa Selbst EliminatedJul 14, '10 Blinds: 4,000-8,000 with a 1,000 ante 1. Daniel Chamberlain – 2,460,000 Bart Hanson Big Hands:
We caught up with the hand on the river with over 150,000 in the middle and the board reading A The bet sent his opponent into the tank and the ESPN cameras rushed over to film the action. After a minute or two of thinking, his opponent slid out a call and Baldwin tabled the A Baldwin is up to 625,000 with that pot. Jean-Robert Bellande Rivers a Straight We caught up with the action on the river with Jean-Robert Bellande betting 85,000 on a board of 5 “I’ve been planning this out for a while now,” Bellande said. “You get it in behind and just get there and boom! You have a stack.” Bellande does have a stack as he sits with 530,000. Sam Farha Doubles Up Sam Farha moved all in for 85,000 and Isaac Baron made the call. Farha exposed the A Jason Mercier Doubles Up Robert Mizrachi, Eliminated Shortly Thereafter Jason Mercier bet 19,000 from middle position and Robert Mizrachi three-bet to 55,000 on the button. Mercier moved all in and Mizrachi called 338,000 for his tournament life. Mizrachi exposed the K-K and was way ahead of the 5-5 of Mercier. The board ran out Q-10-8-K-9 and Mizrachi doubled to 690,000. Mercier was left with 133,000 after the hand. Later in the level, Jason Mercier open-shoved in late position with the A Bruce Buffer Eliminated With a board reading 10
Vanessa Selbst was down to about 150,000 when she shoved with the A Dan Lu Doubles Up a Player Dominykas Karmazinas shoved from early position for 55,000 and Dan Lu called on the button. Karmazinas was at risk with the A Jean-Robert Bellande Doubles Up an Opponent Jean Robert Bellande limped from late position and Alper Sar shoved for 80,000. Bellande called with the A
The flop read 8 Jacobs’ All-In Forces Folds Alex Jacobs raised to 18,000 from late position and was called by both blinds. The flop came 10 Jacobs is sitting with 200,000 after he stacked his newly found chips. Sammy Farha Crippled, Eliminated Ryan Milisits moved all-in for 102,000 from middle position and Sam Farha made the call from late position. Milisits showed A The board ran out 10 Left in the Deck Jean-Robert Has Ideas Jean-Robert was talking at his table about the ideas he has for the Tournament of Champions. He thinks that the more bracelets you have, the more chips you should add to your stack. He said that the tournament directors shot the idea down, but he thinks it would add a nice twist to the tournament and give people more incentives to win bracelets. Former Card Player Intern Crusing Jameson Singer, a former Card Player intern in 2006 currently is hovering around the 1 million chip mark. Singer now plays tournaments full-time online and is known as “TheDrake.” Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Player Tags: Sam Farha, Jean-Robert Bellande, Bruce Buffer, Vanessa Selbst, Eric Baldwin, Dan Lu, Jason Mercier Level 17 Hour Two Update: Lots of Eliminations EarlyJul 14, '10 Blinds: 3,000-6,000 with a 1,000 ante 1. Tony Dunst – 1,470,000 Lauren Kling
Bernard Lee got his last 41,000 into the middle prefop against Dragan Galic. Galic tabled A Lee flopped a set and doubled up to 100,000 as the board ran out 8 Billirakis Scores an Early KO Jamie Robbins and Steve Billirakis got tangled up in a preflop raising war which led to Robbins committing the last of his chips in the middle and Billirakis making the call. Robbins tabled K-Q and Billirakis showed A Matros Crippled Compliments of a Cold Deck Matt Matros and Kevin Stani got all of Stani’s chips in the middle preflop. Matros showed K Matros was eliminated just an orbit later.
Andrew Jeter moved in his last 42,000 from the small blind after Johnny Chan had raised under-the-gun. Chan made the call and it was off to showdown. Jeter showed K Soulier Gone Fabrice Soulier moved all-in for his last 79,000 from the cutoff and David Emmons three-bet from the button to isolate and both blinds folded. Soulier was in trouble when Emmons showed A Buchman Eliminated as Rice Doubles Shawn Rice and Eric Buchman got into a prelflop battle with Rice and Buchman being on the button and in the big blind. They ended up getting all-in with very similar stack sizes. Buchman showed K The board ran out 5 Hougaard Slips Isaac Krantz moved all-in on a flop of J Hougaard showed pocket kings, but had to fade some cards when Krantz showed 5
Brian Rast raised from early position and Greg Schaefer three-bet from middle position. Rast made the call and the fop came Q The turn was the 10 David Peters Doubles Up David Peters got his stack of about 300,000 in preflop with the A Brett Richey Doubles Up A player in middle position bet 16,000 and Brett Richey moved all in for 209,000. His opponent went into the tank before eventually making the call. Richey exposed the A Shannon Shorr Eliminated On a board of K
Lauren Kling moved all in preflop for 52,000 with the A Eric Baldwin Doubles Up a Player A player in late position moved all in for 93,000 and it was folded to Eric Baldwin in the small blind. Baldwin tanked before finally moving all in over the top to force the big blind out. Baldwin’s opponent tabled the Q Twitter Accounts Bernard Lee Player Tags: Eric Buchman, Johnny Chan, Fabrice Soulier, Steve Billirakis, Bernard Lee, Brian Rast, Shannon Shorr, Eric Baldwin, Lauren Kling Level Five Hour Two Update: Baron Climbing The RanksJul 09, '10 Blinds: 200-400 with a 50 ante Players Remaining: 2,412 out of 2,412 Average Chip Count: Card Player Chip Counts Justin Marchand – 23,400 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Corwin Cole – 228,200 Notable Eliminations: Mike Sexton Big Hands:
Dennis Phillips got his last 9,225 in the middle preflop with A The flop was K A few hands later, Phillips raised to 1,180 from the hijack and the player in the big blind made the call. The flop came down A Phillips bet 1,500 and the big blind check-raised to 3,300. Phillips thought for a bit and then repopped it to 7,500. The big blind thought for a few moments of his own and then released his hand, turning over the A Phillips took in the pot and he was at 24,000. Ho Can’t Call Picking up the action after the flop came down J The turn was the J
After the flop came down 5 Seat 5 led out for 3,000 and Baldwin made the call again. The river was the 7 Baldwin did the same and seat 5 tabled Q “The curse is finally over,” Baldwin said to the ESPN crew surrounding the table. “I finally won one with you guys here.” He was at 70,000 after the hand. Cada Gives One Up Reigning champion Joe Cada was in the small blind heads up with the big blind. On a flop of 2 Cada made the call and the 6 Sexton Getting Short, Then Busts Mike Sexton made it 1,200 to go from under the gun and action folded around to the big blind, who called. The flop came 2
Isaac Baron called a large preflop raise from the player in seat 4 and saw a flop of K On the K The 5 Baron had around 134,000 in chips after the hand. Chan Picking Up Where He Left Off Johnny Chan left his day 1 as one of the tournament’s chip leaders. He picked up where he left off early in day 2a. Chan limped in from the small blind and the big blind checked the action. The flop ran 6 It was a small win, but Chan now has around 164,000 in chips.
A player raised to 1,200 preflop and Scotty Nguyen made the call from the small blind. Darryll Fish also called from the big blind and the three players saw a flop of J All three players checked and the turn was the A His opponent mucked the A Somerville Surges All we were able to see was Jason Somerville showing down 3 Somerville is now up to 87,400 with his newly acquired chips. Tiffany Michelle Doubles There were four limpers in front of her and then Tiffany Michelle raised to 3,500 on the button. The player in the small blind made it 5,700 more to Michelle and she quickly called. Michelle said call and then realized that she had said call and lamented how she had intended to move in for her remaining 5,500. The flop was 4 Michelle tabled 7 Player Twitter Accounts: Barry Shulman Player Tags: Scotty Nguyen, Johnny Chan, Mike Sexton, Maria Ho, Jason Somerville, Isaac Baron, Eric Baldwin, Tiffany Michelle, Dennis Phillips, Joseph Cada Level One Hour Two Update: Dario Minieri EliminatedJul 07, '10 Blinds: 50-100 Average Chip Counts 30,000 Notable Chip Counts: David Williams – 80,000 Card Player Chip Counts: Steve Murphy — 37,800 Notable Eliminations: Dario Minieri Big Hands:
The player in seat 2 raised to 325 preflop and Paul Magrill made the call from late position. David Oppenheim also made the call and the flop came down 7 Seat 2 and Magrill each checked and Oppenheim bet 500. Seat 2 made the call but Magrill got out of the way. The turn was the 8 The river was the Q “You got it,” Oppenheim said as he tapped the table. “No pair.” Seat 2 tabled 7 Eric Baldwin Loses Minimum Picking up the action on the flop, the board read K The player in seat 7 checked and Eric Baldwin did the same. The A Seat 7 then tabled K Chau Giang Takes One Off Antonio Esfandiari On a board of A Christian Harder Wins with Set-Over-Set Christian Harder bet a Q
A player from middle position bet 4,000 on a J Gray Cuts Isaia With His Diamonds Picking up the action after the board had run out J Jason Gray fired 4,000 and Alessio Isaia decided to look him up. Gray turned over Q
The player in seat 2 raised to 300 and Matt Hawrilenko made the call from the button. The blinds also called and the flop came down A Action was checked to Hawrilenko and he bet 500. Everyone threw in the call and the turn was the 2 Action checked to seat 2 and he bet 800. Hawrilenko folded and the blinds followed suit as seat 2 took the pot. Hawrilenko was at 33,000 after the hand. Sexton Not Happy About His Runner-Runner Flush Mike Sexton was heads up with the player in seat 3 when the flop came J The river was the 6 As Sexton thought it over seat 3 said, “Runner-runner,” and smiled, alluding to the runner-runner flush he had made. Sexton responded with, “I see that. The thing is, I made runner-runner.” Sexton eventually called, and sure enough both players were telling the truth. Their hands: Seat 3: A Seat 3 showed the ace-high flush and Sexton’s 10-high flush was no good. He sighed and turned to watch the conclusion of the Germany-Spain World Cup action. He had around 26,400 in chips after the loss. Jaka Makes Big Lay Down Entering the action late, Faraz Jaka looked pained as he pondered his opponent’s bet of 13,000 on a board of A CardPlayer TV Day 1C Begins Player Tags: Antonio Esfandiari, Chau Giang, Matt Hawrilenko, Jason Gray, Dario Minieri, Eric Baldwin, Christian Harder, Alessio Isaia |
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| Jul 14, '10 | 2010 41st Annual World Series of Poker | $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event | 9 | + |
Level 26 Hour Two: Clements Chips Up, Grinder Slips a BitJul 16, '10 Blinds: 25,000-50,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 64 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 3,378,000 Card Player Chip Counts: Tony Dunst – 1,020,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Theo Jorgensen – 10,900,000 Notable Eliminations: 72. Habib Khanis – $114,205 Player Twitter Accounts Big Hands:
On a flop of 10 Subramaniam checked and Clements bet 200,000. Subramaniam made it 500,000 to go and Clements didn’t go anywhere, as he tossed in the extra 300,000. The river was the the 7 Subramaniam showed K Lee Gets Best of Kostritsyn Alexander Kostritsyn raised from early position and Redmond Lee made the call from the big blind. The two saw a flop heads-up of 6 Lee led out into the preflop raiser for 175,000. Kostritsyn made the call and the J Parras Knocks Out Two Richard Morgan raised under-the-gun and Habib Khanis three-bet all-in for his last 650,000. Eduardo Parras moved all-in for his 1,500,000 and Richard Morgan made the call, putting his own 1,300,000 stack into the middle. Parras had both players called as all three hands were turned face-up. Morgan: K The flop came 9
Michael Mizrachi fired 200,000 on a fop of 6 Mizrachi checked and Sijpkens moved all-in for 1,375,000 and Mizrachi made the call. Mizrachi tabled 7 The river was the J Levy KO’s Canali Pierre Canali got all-in preflop against Adam Levy. Levy tabled K Baldwin Climbing We caught up with this hand on the river with Ismail Erkenov leading out for 200,000 with the board reading 7 After a while, Erkenov finally made the call and Baldwin pulled his chips back and tabled his hand as he showed J
Duy Le raised to 120,000 from middle position and John Racner three-bet to 310,000. Le made the call and they saw a flop of 10 The turn was the 7 Le showed 10 Marcel Cole Eliminated Marcel moved his last 905,000 into the middle from under-the-gun with 8 The board ran out A
John Dolan rasied to 115,000 and Edward Ochana made the call. Peter Jetten then squeezed all-in for 780,000. Dolan made the call and Ochana got out of the way. Jetten tabled Q Baldwin Drops a Big One On a flop of 9 The turn was the Q Baldwin tabled 10 Meenakshi Subramaniam Eliminated On the turn the board read 6 Subramaniam moved all-in for 900,000 and Nguyen made the call. Subramaniam showed 8
Peter Jetten raised on the button to 125,000. Jacobo Fernandez three-bet to 475,000 from the big blind. Jetten moved all-in and Fernandez made the call. Fernandez showed J Jetten couldn’t find a five on the turn or the river and slipped to 900,000. Fernandez doubled up to 1,600,000. John Armbrust Eliminated John Armbrust made it 125,000 under-the-gun and Redmond Lee moved all-in on the button. Armbrust made the call and was at risk of elimination. Armbrust showed A Player Tags: Michael Mizrachi, Scott Clements, Peter Jetten, Duy Le, Eric Baldwin, John Racener, Adam Levy, Alexander Kostritsyn Level 25, Hour One: Eric Baldwin Doubles Up, Jorgensen Takes Chip LeadJul 15, '10 Blinds: 20,000-40,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 85 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 2,587,882 Card Player Chip Counts: Tony Dunst – 2,360,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Theo Jorgensen – 8,060,000 Notable Eliminations: 86. Juha Helppi — $79,806 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Jeff Banghart moved all in for 435,000 from the cutoff and Bryn Kenney made the call from the button. The blinds mucked and the hands were turned. Kenney: A Kenney was dominating but the board ran out 10 Carroll Busts James Carroll moved all in and Evgeny Shnayder made the call, turning over A The board ran out 10
Eric Baldwin doubled through Andrew Brokos at the end of the previous level and he just did it again. Brokos raised to 80,000 from the button and Eric Baldwin moved in for 780,000 from the small blind. Brokos made the call and the hands were shown. Brokos: A The flop came J Clements Has Aces Cracked Scott Clements raised to 95,000 preflop and Brian Jensen moved all in for 680,000. Clements snapped him off with pocket aces. Jensen held pocket tens and the flop fell K
Picking up the action on the turn, the board read 7 Theo Jorgensen snap-called and turned over K The river was the 4 Left In The Deck Last Level Of The Night The players were originally scheduled to play five complete levels today. However, Jack Effel has announced that this will be the last level of the night, meaning the field will exit one hour earlier than expected. Furthermore, if the players begin to bust at an accelerated rate, play may be stopped even earlier. The word around the Amazon Room is that the target number of players to start Day 7 on Friday is 81, which was about 15 eliminations away at the start of the level. Player Tags: James Carroll, Theo Jorgensen, Scott Clements, Andrew Brokos, Eric Baldwin, Bryn Kenney Level 24, Hour Two: Dunst Doubles UpJul 15, '10 Note: Players have gone on an unscheduled 20-minute break to color up the T1,000 chips. Blinds: 15,000-30,000 with a 4,000 ante Players Remaining: 96 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 2,287,187 Card Player Chip Counts: Andrew Brokos – 2,000,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. John Racener – 6,985,000 Notable Eliminations: 100. Christian Harder — $57,102 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Picking up the action on a flop of J Chamberlain: A Chamberlain held the aces but needed to fade the spade draw. The turn was harmless with the 10 Jetten Takes One Duy Le raised to 90,000 and Peter Jetten made the call. Both players saw the flop come down K Jetten made the call and the turn was the 6
Tony Dunst raised preflop from under the gun and Edward Ochana made the call in the small blind. The flop came down 7 Dunst: 9 Ochana flopped top pair but Dunst was ahead with the overpair. The board finished off A Jorgensen Takes One Down Picking up the action on the turn, the board read 10 Jorgensen fired 300,000 and was called again. Jorgensen then showed A
Getty Mattingsley was all in for 761,000 preflop and Alexander Kostritsyn made the call. Here were the hands. Kostritsyn: A It was a race and Kostritsyn jumped ahead on the Q Bardah With Some Aggression Ronnie Bardah raised to 80,000 and Gabriel Alarie made it 280,000 to go from the small blind. The big blind mucked and the action was back on Bardah. He shoved for 1.12 million and Alarie took a session in the tank. He decided to release his hand and Bardah took a nice pot without the bother of a flop. He was up to 1.5 million.
Eric Baldwin raised to 76,000 preflop and David Baker moved all in from the small blind for 581,000. Baldwin made the call and the hands were turned over. Baldwin: A The race was on and each player got a piece of the Q A few hands later, Baldwin moved in for 340,000 and Andrew Brokos made the call. Brokos turned over A Player Tags: Theo Jorgensen, Ronnie Bardah, Peter Jetten, Eric Baldwin, Gabriel Alarie, Tony Dunst, Alexander Kostritsyn, Brandon Steven, Getty Mattingsley, Daniel Chamberlain Level 23, Hour Two: Dunst Loses Heartbreaker, Last Woman Standing EliminatedJul 15, '10 Blinds: 12,000-24,000 with a 3,000 ante Players Remaining: 115 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 1,909,304 Card Player Chip Counts: Andrew Brokos – 1,230,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Joseph Cheong – 5,540,000 Notable Eliminations: 116. Robert Mizrachi — $57,102 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Ian Gordon moved all in for a little over 1 million and Tony Dunst snapped him off. Gordon turned over A Another player at the table announced he mucked the case A Dunst was drawing dead and to add insult to injury, the board finished off 2 Guan Eliminated Javier Martinez raised to 36,000 from the cutoff and Mozheng Guan repopped to 84,000 from the button. Martinez called and the flop came down A Martinez led with 110,000 and Guan moved in for 480,000. Martinez made the call and turned over A The turn was the 3
Breeze Zuckerman, the last woman standing, moved all in preflop and Eric Baldwin looked her up from the button. Baldwin: A Baldwin had Zuckerman in bad shape, but the flop gave her some help when it fell K Baker Doubles Up David Baker moved all in for 200,000 preflop and David Assouline looked him up. Baker turned over 10 The board ran out Q
Sebastian Panny and Matthew Jarvis tangled in a huge pot that saw Panny all in preflop. Here were their hands: Panny: 10 Panny was in trouble and the flop came K Panny, who was in the top 10 chip counts early in the day, was sent crashing to the rail. Jarvis was at 4.6 million. Pettit Gets Short, Then Busts Michael Pettit found the bulk of his chips in the middle against Jacob Tyler after the flop fell K Pettit was left with just 8,000 after Tyler was all in and Pettit tabled 10 The flush or straight never came and Pettit lost the pot. He would bust a few hands later.
Gualter Salles was all in preflop against Adam Levy. The cards were then turned over. Salles: A Levy was dominating and he put a vice-grip on the hand when the flop fell Q
The 2010 Main Event is down to one Mizrachi brother. Robert Mizrachi moved in for his last 196,000 from under the gun and Josue Sauvageau made the call from the cutoff. Mizrachi: A Mizrachi was dominated and the flop brought no help as it fell J Player Tags: Robert Mizrachi, Eric Baldwin, Ian Gordon, Gualter Salles, Adam Levy, Tony Dunst, Javier Martinez, Sebastian Panny, Mozheng Guan, Breeze Zuckerman, Josue Sauvageau Level 22, Hour Two: Theo Tran Doubles UpJul 15, '10 Blinds: 10,000-20,000 with a 3,000 ante Players Remaining: 134 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 1,638,582 Card Player Chip Counts: Andrew Brokos – 1,305,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Robert Pisano – 5,500,000 Notable Eliminations: 140. Phil Galfond — $57,102 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Robert Pisano raised to 40,000 preflop and Theo Tran moved all in for 155,000. Pisano made the call and the cards were turned over. Tran: A The classic race was on and the flop fell J Savage Eliminated Matthew Schreiber raised from the button and Craig Savage moved in for 375,000. Schreiber made the call and turned over A Baldwin Needs No Flop Breeze Zuckerman raised to 61,000 and Eric Baldwin raised to 300,000 from the small blind. Zuckerman mucked her hand, flashing the A
Picking up the action after the turn, the board read J Lodden bet 300,000 and Eriquezzo looked him up one last time. Lodden turned over A Lodden scored the pot and he was at 2.6 million while Eriquezzo was at 945,000. Rainey Betters Affleck Nicholas Rainey raised to 47,000 and Matt Affleck made the call from the big blind. The flop fell J Affleck called and the river was the K
Picking up the action on the flop, the board read K The turn was the K Mizrachi’s aggression gave him the pot and he was up to 5.35 million. Brikis Knocks Out Pellegrino Picking up the action on the flop, the board read Q Brikis: 9 Brikis flopped a set to better Pellegrino’s top pair. The board finished off Q
Phil Galfond made it 48,000 to go from under the gun. Josue Sauvageau made it 128,000 and the action came back around to Galfond. Galfond then took a long tank session, resulting in the clock getting called on him. He decided to move all in and Sauvageau snapped it off. Galfond: 6 Galfond was in deep trouble and the board ran out K Card Player TV Day 6 Of The Main Event Gets Underway Player Tags: Michael Mizrachi, Phil Galfond, Theo Tran, Eric Baldwin, Johnny Lodden, Nick Rainey, Matt Affleck, Josh Brikis, Bryan Pellegrino Level 21 Hour One Update: Scotty Nguyen EliminatedJul 14, '10 Blinds: 8,000-16,000 with a 2,000 ante 1. Evan Lamprea — 3,900,000 Praz Bansi
Garrett Adelstein opend to 36,000 from the cutoff and Johnny Chan three-bet to 101,000 from the button. Action was folded back to Adelstein and he reraised all in for 970,000. Chan called with the K Serge Didisheim Eliminated Serge Didisheim moved all in for 195,000. Manuel Davidian called with the A Marceo Dabus Doubles Up Marceo Dabus was all in preflop for 395,000 with the A
Robert Mizrachi bet 42,000 from middle position and Matthew Reed three-bet to 115,000. Mizrachi made the call. The flop came J Peter Jetten Eliminates a Player Laurentius Sloot was all in for 124,000 with the A Scotty Nguyen Eliminated Scotty Nguyen was getting short when he moved all in preflop with A-J. Unfortunately for Nguyen, he ran into the pocket kings of his opponent. The board offered no help and he was gone.
On an A Sam Haddad Eliminated Sam Haddad moved all in preflop for 167,000. Duy Le called. Haddad tabled the A Eric Baldwin Doubles Up a Player Jean Pasqualini shoved from the small blind for 165,000. Eric Baldwin called in the big blind. Baldwin tabled the K Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Player Tags: Robert Mizrachi, Scotty Nguyen, Johnny Chan, Serge Didisheim, Peter Jetten, Eric Baldwin, Praz Bansi Level 18 Hour One Update: Jason Mercier and Vanessa Selbst EliminatedJul 14, '10 Blinds: 4,000-8,000 with a 1,000 ante 1. Daniel Chamberlain – 2,460,000 Bart Hanson Big Hands:
We caught up with the hand on the river with over 150,000 in the middle and the board reading A The bet sent his opponent into the tank and the ESPN cameras rushed over to film the action. After a minute or two of thinking, his opponent slid out a call and Baldwin tabled the A Baldwin is up to 625,000 with that pot. Jean-Robert Bellande Rivers a Straight We caught up with the action on the river with Jean-Robert Bellande betting 85,000 on a board of 5 “I’ve been planning this out for a while now,” Bellande said. “You get it in behind and just get there and boom! You have a stack.” Bellande does have a stack as he sits with 530,000. Sam Farha Doubles Up Sam Farha moved all in for 85,000 and Isaac Baron made the call. Farha exposed the A Jason Mercier Doubles Up Robert Mizrachi, Eliminated Shortly Thereafter Jason Mercier bet 19,000 from middle position and Robert Mizrachi three-bet to 55,000 on the button. Mercier moved all in and Mizrachi called 338,000 for his tournament life. Mizrachi exposed the K-K and was way ahead of the 5-5 of Mercier. The board ran out Q-10-8-K-9 and Mizrachi doubled to 690,000. Mercier was left with 133,000 after the hand. Later in the level, Jason Mercier open-shoved in late position with the A Bruce Buffer Eliminated With a board reading 10
Vanessa Selbst was down to about 150,000 when she shoved with the A Dan Lu Doubles Up a Player Dominykas Karmazinas shoved from early position for 55,000 and Dan Lu called on the button. Karmazinas was at risk with the A Jean-Robert Bellande Doubles Up an Opponent Jean Robert Bellande limped from late position and Alper Sar shoved for 80,000. Bellande called with the A
The flop read 8 Jacobs’ All-In Forces Folds Alex Jacobs raised to 18,000 from late position and was called by both blinds. The flop came 10 Jacobs is sitting with 200,000 after he stacked his newly found chips. Sammy Farha Crippled, Eliminated Ryan Milisits moved all-in for 102,000 from middle position and Sam Farha made the call from late position. Milisits showed A The board ran out 10 Left in the Deck Jean-Robert Has Ideas Jean-Robert was talking at his table about the ideas he has for the Tournament of Champions. He thinks that the more bracelets you have, the more chips you should add to your stack. He said that the tournament directors shot the idea down, but he thinks it would add a nice twist to the tournament and give people more incentives to win bracelets. Former Card Player Intern Crusing Jameson Singer, a former Card Player intern in 2006 currently is hovering around the 1 million chip mark. Singer now plays tournaments full-time online and is known as “TheDrake.” Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Player Tags: Sam Farha, Jean-Robert Bellande, Bruce Buffer, Vanessa Selbst, Eric Baldwin, Dan Lu, Jason Mercier Level 17 Hour Two Update: Lots of Eliminations EarlyJul 14, '10 Blinds: 3,000-6,000 with a 1,000 ante 1. Tony Dunst – 1,470,000 Lauren Kling
Bernard Lee got his last 41,000 into the middle prefop against Dragan Galic. Galic tabled A Lee flopped a set and doubled up to 100,000 as the board ran out 8 Billirakis Scores an Early KO Jamie Robbins and Steve Billirakis got tangled up in a preflop raising war which led to Robbins committing the last of his chips in the middle and Billirakis making the call. Robbins tabled K-Q and Billirakis showed A Matros Crippled Compliments of a Cold Deck Matt Matros and Kevin Stani got all of Stani’s chips in the middle preflop. Matros showed K Matros was eliminated just an orbit later.
Andrew Jeter moved in his last 42,000 from the small blind after Johnny Chan had raised under-the-gun. Chan made the call and it was off to showdown. Jeter showed K Soulier Gone Fabrice Soulier moved all-in for his last 79,000 from the cutoff and David Emmons three-bet from the button to isolate and both blinds folded. Soulier was in trouble when Emmons showed A Buchman Eliminated as Rice Doubles Shawn Rice and Eric Buchman got into a prelflop battle with Rice and Buchman being on the button and in the big blind. They ended up getting all-in with very similar stack sizes. Buchman showed K The board ran out 5 Hougaard Slips Isaac Krantz moved all-in on a flop of J Hougaard showed pocket kings, but had to fade some cards when Krantz showed 5
Brian Rast raised from early position and Greg Schaefer three-bet from middle position. Rast made the call and the fop came Q The turn was the 10 David Peters Doubles Up David Peters got his stack of about 300,000 in preflop with the A Brett Richey Doubles Up A player in middle position bet 16,000 and Brett Richey moved all in for 209,000. His opponent went into the tank before eventually making the call. Richey exposed the A Shannon Shorr Eliminated On a board of K
Lauren Kling moved all in preflop for 52,000 with the A Eric Baldwin Doubles Up a Player A player in late position moved all in for 93,000 and it was folded to Eric Baldwin in the small blind. Baldwin tanked before finally moving all in over the top to force the big blind out. Baldwin’s opponent tabled the Q Twitter Accounts Bernard Lee Player Tags: Eric Buchman, Johnny Chan, Fabrice Soulier, Steve Billirakis, Bernard Lee, Brian Rast, Shannon Shorr, Eric Baldwin, Lauren Kling Level Five Hour Two Update: Baron Climbing The RanksJul 09, '10 Blinds: 200-400 with a 50 ante Players Remaining: 2,412 out of 2,412 Average Chip Count: Card Player Chip Counts Justin Marchand – 23,400 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Corwin Cole – 228,200 Notable Eliminations: Mike Sexton Big Hands:
Dennis Phillips got his last 9,225 in the middle preflop with A The flop was K A few hands later, Phillips raised to 1,180 from the hijack and the player in the big blind made the call. The flop came down A Phillips bet 1,500 and the big blind check-raised to 3,300. Phillips thought for a bit and then repopped it to 7,500. The big blind thought for a few moments of his own and then released his hand, turning over the A Phillips took in the pot and he was at 24,000. Ho Can’t Call Picking up the action after the flop came down J The turn was the J
After the flop came down 5 Seat 5 led out for 3,000 and Baldwin made the call again. The river was the 7 Baldwin did the same and seat 5 tabled Q “The curse is finally over,” Baldwin said to the ESPN crew surrounding the table. “I finally won one with you guys here.” He was at 70,000 after the hand. Cada Gives One Up Reigning champion Joe Cada was in the small blind heads up with the big blind. On a flop of 2 Cada made the call and the 6 Sexton Getting Short, Then Busts Mike Sexton made it 1,200 to go from under the gun and action folded around to the big blind, who called. The flop came 2
Isaac Baron called a large preflop raise from the player in seat 4 and saw a flop of K On the K The 5 Baron had around 134,000 in chips after the hand. Chan Picking Up Where He Left Off Johnny Chan left his day 1 as one of the tournament’s chip leaders. He picked up where he left off early in day 2a. Chan limped in from the small blind and the big blind checked the action. The flop ran 6 It was a small win, but Chan now has around 164,000 in chips.
A player raised to 1,200 preflop and Scotty Nguyen made the call from the small blind. Darryll Fish also called from the big blind and the three players saw a flop of J All three players checked and the turn was the A His opponent mucked the A Somerville Surges All we were able to see was Jason Somerville showing down 3 Somerville is now up to 87,400 with his newly acquired chips. Tiffany Michelle Doubles There were four limpers in front of her and then Tiffany Michelle raised to 3,500 on the button. The player in the small blind made it 5,700 more to Michelle and she quickly called. Michelle said call and then realized that she had said call and lamented how she had intended to move in for her remaining 5,500. The flop was 4 Michelle tabled 7 Player Twitter Accounts: Barry Shulman Player Tags: Scotty Nguyen, Johnny Chan, Mike Sexton, Maria Ho, Jason Somerville, Isaac Baron, Eric Baldwin, Tiffany Michelle, Dennis Phillips, Joseph Cada Level One Hour Two Update: Dario Minieri EliminatedJul 07, '10 Blinds: 50-100 Average Chip Counts 30,000 Notable Chip Counts: David Williams – 80,000 Card Player Chip Counts: Steve Murphy — 37,800 Notable Eliminations: Dario Minieri Big Hands:
The player in seat 2 raised to 325 preflop and Paul Magrill made the call from late position. David Oppenheim also made the call and the flop came down 7 Seat 2 and Magrill each checked and Oppenheim bet 500. Seat 2 made the call but Magrill got out of the way. The turn was the 8 The river was the Q “You got it,” Oppenheim said as he tapped the table. “No pair.” Seat 2 tabled 7 Eric Baldwin Loses Minimum Picking up the action on the flop, the board read K The player in seat 7 checked and Eric Baldwin did the same. The A Seat 7 then tabled K Chau Giang Takes One Off Antonio Esfandiari On a board of A Christian Harder Wins with Set-Over-Set Christian Harder bet a Q
A player from middle position bet 4,000 on a J Gray Cuts Isaia With His Diamonds Picking up the action after the board had run out J Jason Gray fired 4,000 and Alessio Isaia decided to look him up. Gray turned over Q
The player in seat 2 raised to 300 and Matt Hawrilenko made the call from the button. The blinds also called and the flop came down A Action was checked to Hawrilenko and he bet 500. Everyone threw in the call and the turn was the 2 Action checked to seat 2 and he bet 800. Hawrilenko folded and the blinds followed suit as seat 2 took the pot. Hawrilenko was at 33,000 after the hand. Sexton Not Happy About His Runner-Runner Flush Mike Sexton was heads up with the player in seat 3 when the flop came J The river was the 6 As Sexton thought it over seat 3 said, “Runner-runner,” and smiled, alluding to the runner-runner flush he had made. Sexton responded with, “I see that. The thing is, I made runner-runner.” Sexton eventually called, and sure enough both players were telling the truth. Their hands: Seat 3: A Seat 3 showed the ace-high flush and Sexton’s 10-high flush was no good. He sighed and turned to watch the conclusion of the Germany-Spain World Cup action. He had around 26,400 in chips after the loss. Jaka Makes Big Lay Down Entering the action late, Faraz Jaka looked pained as he pondered his opponent’s bet of 13,000 on a board of A CardPlayer TV Day 1C Begins Player Tags: Antonio Esfandiari, Chau Giang, Matt Hawrilenko, Jason Gray, Dario Minieri, Eric Baldwin, Christian Harder, Alessio Isaia |
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Level 26 Hour Two: Clements Chips Up, Grinder Slips a BitJul 16, '10 Blinds: 25,000-50,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 64 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 3,378,000 Card Player Chip Counts: Tony Dunst – 1,020,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Theo Jorgensen – 10,900,000 Notable Eliminations: 72. Habib Khanis – $114,205 Player Twitter Accounts Big Hands:
On a flop of 10 Subramaniam checked and Clements bet 200,000. Subramaniam made it 500,000 to go and Clements didn’t go anywhere, as he tossed in the extra 300,000. The river was the the 7 Subramaniam showed K Lee Gets Best of Kostritsyn Alexander Kostritsyn raised from early position and Redmond Lee made the call from the big blind. The two saw a flop heads-up of 6 Lee led out into the preflop raiser for 175,000. Kostritsyn made the call and the J Parras Knocks Out Two Richard Morgan raised under-the-gun and Habib Khanis three-bet all-in for his last 650,000. Eduardo Parras moved all-in for his 1,500,000 and Richard Morgan made the call, putting his own 1,300,000 stack into the middle. Parras had both players called as all three hands were turned face-up. Morgan: K The flop came 9
Michael Mizrachi fired 200,000 on a fop of 6 Mizrachi checked and Sijpkens moved all-in for 1,375,000 and Mizrachi made the call. Mizrachi tabled 7 The river was the J Levy KO’s Canali Pierre Canali got all-in preflop against Adam Levy. Levy tabled K Baldwin Climbing We caught up with this hand on the river with Ismail Erkenov leading out for 200,000 with the board reading 7 After a while, Erkenov finally made the call and Baldwin pulled his chips back and tabled his hand as he showed J
Duy Le raised to 120,000 from middle position and John Racner three-bet to 310,000. Le made the call and they saw a flop of 10 The turn was the 7 Le showed 10 Marcel Cole Eliminated Marcel moved his last 905,000 into the middle from under-the-gun with 8 The board ran out A
John Dolan rasied to 115,000 and Edward Ochana made the call. Peter Jetten then squeezed all-in for 780,000. Dolan made the call and Ochana got out of the way. Jetten tabled Q Baldwin Drops a Big One On a flop of 9 The turn was the Q Baldwin tabled 10 Meenakshi Subramaniam Eliminated On the turn the board read 6 Subramaniam moved all-in for 900,000 and Nguyen made the call. Subramaniam showed 8
Peter Jetten raised on the button to 125,000. Jacobo Fernandez three-bet to 475,000 from the big blind. Jetten moved all-in and Fernandez made the call. Fernandez showed J Jetten couldn’t find a five on the turn or the river and slipped to 900,000. Fernandez doubled up to 1,600,000. John Armbrust Eliminated John Armbrust made it 125,000 under-the-gun and Redmond Lee moved all-in on the button. Armbrust made the call and was at risk of elimination. Armbrust showed A Player Tags: Michael Mizrachi, Scott Clements, Peter Jetten, Duy Le, Eric Baldwin, John Racener, Adam Levy, Alexander Kostritsyn Level 25, Hour One: Eric Baldwin Doubles Up, Jorgensen Takes Chip LeadJul 15, '10 Blinds: 20,000-40,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 85 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 2,587,882 Card Player Chip Counts: Tony Dunst – 2,360,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Theo Jorgensen – 8,060,000 Notable Eliminations: 86. Juha Helppi — $79,806 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Jeff Banghart moved all in for 435,000 from the cutoff and Bryn Kenney made the call from the button. The blinds mucked and the hands were turned. Kenney: A Kenney was dominating but the board ran out 10 Carroll Busts James Carroll moved all in and Evgeny Shnayder made the call, turning over A The board ran out 10
Eric Baldwin doubled through Andrew Brokos at the end of the previous level and he just did it again. Brokos raised to 80,000 from the button and Eric Baldwin moved in for 780,000 from the small blind. Brokos made the call and the hands were shown. Brokos: A The flop came J Clements Has Aces Cracked Scott Clements raised to 95,000 preflop and Brian Jensen moved all in for 680,000. Clements snapped him off with pocket aces. Jensen held pocket tens and the flop fell K
Picking up the action on the turn, the board read 7 Theo Jorgensen snap-called and turned over K The river was the 4 Left In The Deck Last Level Of The Night The players were originally scheduled to play five complete levels today. However, Jack Effel has announced that this will be the last level of the night, meaning the field will exit one hour earlier than expected. Furthermore, if the players begin to bust at an accelerated rate, play may be stopped even earlier. The word around the Amazon Room is that the target number of players to start Day 7 on Friday is 81, which was about 15 eliminations away at the start of the level. Player Tags: James Carroll, Theo Jorgensen, Scott Clements, Andrew Brokos, Eric Baldwin, Bryn Kenney Level 24, Hour Two: Dunst Doubles UpJul 15, '10 Note: Players have gone on an unscheduled 20-minute break to color up the T1,000 chips. Blinds: 15,000-30,000 with a 4,000 ante Players Remaining: 96 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 2,287,187 Card Player Chip Counts: Andrew Brokos – 2,000,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. John Racener – 6,985,000 Notable Eliminations: 100. Christian Harder — $57,102 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Picking up the action on a flop of J Chamberlain: A Chamberlain held the aces but needed to fade the spade draw. The turn was harmless with the 10 Jetten Takes One Duy Le raised to 90,000 and Peter Jetten made the call. Both players saw the flop come down K Jetten made the call and the turn was the 6
Tony Dunst raised preflop from under the gun and Edward Ochana made the call in the small blind. The flop came down 7 Dunst: 9 Ochana flopped top pair but Dunst was ahead with the overpair. The board finished off A Jorgensen Takes One Down Picking up the action on the turn, the board read 10 Jorgensen fired 300,000 and was called again. Jorgensen then showed A
Getty Mattingsley was all in for 761,000 preflop and Alexander Kostritsyn made the call. Here were the hands. Kostritsyn: A It was a race and Kostritsyn jumped ahead on the Q Bardah With Some Aggression Ronnie Bardah raised to 80,000 and Gabriel Alarie made it 280,000 to go from the small blind. The big blind mucked and the action was back on Bardah. He shoved for 1.12 million and Alarie took a session in the tank. He decided to release his hand and Bardah took a nice pot without the bother of a flop. He was up to 1.5 million.
Eric Baldwin raised to 76,000 preflop and David Baker moved all in from the small blind for 581,000. Baldwin made the call and the hands were turned over. Baldwin: A The race was on and each player got a piece of the Q A few hands later, Baldwin moved in for 340,000 and Andrew Brokos made the call. Brokos turned over A Player Tags: Theo Jorgensen, Ronnie Bardah, Peter Jetten, Eric Baldwin, Gabriel Alarie, Tony Dunst, Alexander Kostritsyn, Brandon Steven, Getty Mattingsley, Daniel Chamberlain Level 23, Hour Two: Dunst Loses Heartbreaker, Last Woman Standing EliminatedJul 15, '10 Blinds: 12,000-24,000 with a 3,000 ante Players Remaining: 115 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 1,909,304 Card Player Chip Counts: Andrew Brokos – 1,230,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Joseph Cheong – 5,540,000 Notable Eliminations: 116. Robert Mizrachi — $57,102 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Ian Gordon moved all in for a little over 1 million and Tony Dunst snapped him off. Gordon turned over A Another player at the table announced he mucked the case A Dunst was drawing dead and to add insult to injury, the board finished off 2 Guan Eliminated Javier Martinez raised to 36,000 from the cutoff and Mozheng Guan repopped to 84,000 from the button. Martinez called and the flop came down A Martinez led with 110,000 and Guan moved in for 480,000. Martinez made the call and turned over A The turn was the 3
Breeze Zuckerman, the last woman standing, moved all in preflop and Eric Baldwin looked her up from the button. Baldwin: A Baldwin had Zuckerman in bad shape, but the flop gave her some help when it fell K Baker Doubles Up David Baker moved all in for 200,000 preflop and David Assouline looked him up. Baker turned over 10 The board ran out Q
Sebastian Panny and Matthew Jarvis tangled in a huge pot that saw Panny all in preflop. Here were their hands: Panny: 10 Panny was in trouble and the flop came K Panny, who was in the top 10 chip counts early in the day, was sent crashing to the rail. Jarvis was at 4.6 million. Pettit Gets Short, Then Busts Michael Pettit found the bulk of his chips in the middle against Jacob Tyler after the flop fell K Pettit was left with just 8,000 after Tyler was all in and Pettit tabled 10 The flush or straight never came and Pettit lost the pot. He would bust a few hands later.
Gualter Salles was all in preflop against Adam Levy. The cards were then turned over. Salles: A Levy was dominating and he put a vice-grip on the hand when the flop fell Q
The 2010 Main Event is down to one Mizrachi brother. Robert Mizrachi moved in for his last 196,000 from under the gun and Josue Sauvageau made the call from the cutoff. Mizrachi: A Mizrachi was dominated and the flop brought no help as it fell J Player Tags: Robert Mizrachi, Eric Baldwin, Ian Gordon, Gualter Salles, Adam Levy, Tony Dunst, Javier Martinez, Sebastian Panny, Mozheng Guan, Breeze Zuckerman, Josue Sauvageau Level 22, Hour Two: Theo Tran Doubles UpJul 15, '10 Blinds: 10,000-20,000 with a 3,000 ante Players Remaining: 134 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 1,638,582 Card Player Chip Counts: Andrew Brokos – 1,305,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Robert Pisano – 5,500,000 Notable Eliminations: 140. Phil Galfond — $57,102 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Robert Pisano raised to 40,000 preflop and Theo Tran moved all in for 155,000. Pisano made the call and the cards were turned over. Tran: A The classic race was on and the flop fell J Savage Eliminated Matthew Schreiber raised from the button and Craig Savage moved in for 375,000. Schreiber made the call and turned over A Baldwin Needs No Flop Breeze Zuckerman raised to 61,000 and Eric Baldwin raised to 300,000 from the small blind. Zuckerman mucked her hand, flashing the A
Picking up the action after the turn, the board read J Lodden bet 300,000 and Eriquezzo looked him up one last time. Lodden turned over A Lodden scored the pot and he was at 2.6 million while Eriquezzo was at 945,000. Rainey Betters Affleck Nicholas Rainey raised to 47,000 and Matt Affleck made the call from the big blind. The flop fell J Affleck called and the river was the K
Picking up the action on the flop, the board read K The turn was the K Mizrachi’s aggression gave him the pot and he was up to 5.35 million. Brikis Knocks Out Pellegrino Picking up the action on the flop, the board read Q Brikis: 9 Brikis flopped a set to better Pellegrino’s top pair. The board finished off Q
Phil Galfond made it 48,000 to go from under the gun. Josue Sauvageau made it 128,000 and the action came back around to Galfond. Galfond then took a long tank session, resulting in the clock getting called on him. He decided to move all in and Sauvageau snapped it off. Galfond: 6 Galfond was in deep trouble and the board ran out K Card Player TV Day 6 Of The Main Event Gets Underway Player Tags: Michael Mizrachi, Phil Galfond, Theo Tran, Eric Baldwin, Johnny Lodden, Nick Rainey, Matt Affleck, Josh Brikis, Bryan Pellegrino Level 21 Hour One Update: Scotty Nguyen EliminatedJul 14, '10 Blinds: 8,000-16,000 with a 2,000 ante 1. Evan Lamprea — 3,900,000 Praz Bansi
Garrett Adelstein opend to 36,000 from the cutoff and Johnny Chan three-bet to 101,000 from the button. Action was folded back to Adelstein and he reraised all in for 970,000. Chan called with the K Serge Didisheim Eliminated Serge Didisheim moved all in for 195,000. Manuel Davidian called with the A Marceo Dabus Doubles Up Marceo Dabus was all in preflop for 395,000 with the A
Robert Mizrachi bet 42,000 from middle position and Matthew Reed three-bet to 115,000. Mizrachi made the call. The flop came J Peter Jetten Eliminates a Player Laurentius Sloot was all in for 124,000 with the A Scotty Nguyen Eliminated Scotty Nguyen was getting short when he moved all in preflop with A-J. Unfortunately for Nguyen, he ran into the pocket kings of his opponent. The board offered no help and he was gone.
On an A Sam Haddad Eliminated Sam Haddad moved all in preflop for 167,000. Duy Le called. Haddad tabled the A Eric Baldwin Doubles Up a Player Jean Pasqualini shoved from the small blind for 165,000. Eric Baldwin called in the big blind. Baldwin tabled the K Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Player Tags: Robert Mizrachi, Scotty Nguyen, Johnny Chan, Serge Didisheim, Peter Jetten, Eric Baldwin, Praz Bansi Level 18 Hour One Update: Jason Mercier and Vanessa Selbst EliminatedJul 14, '10 Blinds: 4,000-8,000 with a 1,000 ante 1. Daniel Chamberlain – 2,460,000 Bart Hanson Big Hands:
We caught up with the hand on the river with over 150,000 in the middle and the board reading A The bet sent his opponent into the tank and the ESPN cameras rushed over to film the action. After a minute or two of thinking, his opponent slid out a call and Baldwin tabled the A Baldwin is up to 625,000 with that pot. Jean-Robert Bellande Rivers a Straight We caught up with the action on the river with Jean-Robert Bellande betting 85,000 on a board of 5 “I’ve been planning this out for a while now,” Bellande said. “You get it in behind and just get there and boom! You have a stack.” Bellande does have a stack as he sits with 530,000. Sam Farha Doubles Up Sam Farha moved all in for 85,000 and Isaac Baron made the call. Farha exposed the A Jason Mercier Doubles Up Robert Mizrachi, Eliminated Shortly Thereafter Jason Mercier bet 19,000 from middle position and Robert Mizrachi three-bet to 55,000 on the button. Mercier moved all in and Mizrachi called 338,000 for his tournament life. Mizrachi exposed the K-K and was way ahead of the 5-5 of Mercier. The board ran out Q-10-8-K-9 and Mizrachi doubled to 690,000. Mercier was left with 133,000 after the hand. Later in the level, Jason Mercier open-shoved in late position with the A Bruce Buffer Eliminated With a board reading 10
Vanessa Selbst was down to about 150,000 when she shoved with the A Dan Lu Doubles Up a Player Dominykas Karmazinas shoved from early position for 55,000 and Dan Lu called on the button. Karmazinas was at risk with the A Jean-Robert Bellande Doubles Up an Opponent Jean Robert Bellande limped from late position and Alper Sar shoved for 80,000. Bellande called with the A
The flop read 8 Jacobs’ All-In Forces Folds Alex Jacobs raised to 18,000 from late position and was called by both blinds. The flop came 10 Jacobs is sitting with 200,000 after he stacked his newly found chips. Sammy Farha Crippled, Eliminated Ryan Milisits moved all-in for 102,000 from middle position and Sam Farha made the call from late position. Milisits showed A The board ran out 10 Left in the Deck Jean-Robert Has Ideas Jean-Robert was talking at his table about the ideas he has for the Tournament of Champions. He thinks that the more bracelets you have, the more chips you should add to your stack. He said that the tournament directors shot the idea down, but he thinks it would add a nice twist to the tournament and give people more incentives to win bracelets. Former Card Player Intern Crusing Jameson Singer, a former Card Player intern in 2006 currently is hovering around the 1 million chip mark. Singer now plays tournaments full-time online and is known as “TheDrake.” Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Player Tags: Sam Farha, Jean-Robert Bellande, Bruce Buffer, Vanessa Selbst, Eric Baldwin, Dan Lu, Jason Mercier Level 17 Hour Two Update: Lots of Eliminations EarlyJul 14, '10 Blinds: 3,000-6,000 with a 1,000 ante 1. Tony Dunst – 1,470,000 Lauren Kling
Bernard Lee got his last 41,000 into the middle prefop against Dragan Galic. Galic tabled A Lee flopped a set and doubled up to 100,000 as the board ran out 8 Billirakis Scores an Early KO Jamie Robbins and Steve Billirakis got tangled up in a preflop raising war which led to Robbins committing the last of his chips in the middle and Billirakis making the call. Robbins tabled K-Q and Billirakis showed A Matros Crippled Compliments of a Cold Deck Matt Matros and Kevin Stani got all of Stani’s chips in the middle preflop. Matros showed K Matros was eliminated just an orbit later.
Andrew Jeter moved in his last 42,000 from the small blind after Johnny Chan had raised under-the-gun. Chan made the call and it was off to showdown. Jeter showed K Soulier Gone Fabrice Soulier moved all-in for his last 79,000 from the cutoff and David Emmons three-bet from the button to isolate and both blinds folded. Soulier was in trouble when Emmons showed A Buchman Eliminated as Rice Doubles Shawn Rice and Eric Buchman got into a prelflop battle with Rice and Buchman being on the button and in the big blind. They ended up getting all-in with very similar stack sizes. Buchman showed K The board ran out 5 Hougaard Slips Isaac Krantz moved all-in on a flop of J Hougaard showed pocket kings, but had to fade some cards when Krantz showed 5
Brian Rast raised from early position and Greg Schaefer three-bet from middle position. Rast made the call and the fop came Q The turn was the 10 David Peters Doubles Up David Peters got his stack of about 300,000 in preflop with the A Brett Richey Doubles Up A player in middle position bet 16,000 and Brett Richey moved all in for 209,000. His opponent went into the tank before eventually making the call. Richey exposed the A Shannon Shorr Eliminated On a board of K
Lauren Kling moved all in preflop for 52,000 with the A Eric Baldwin Doubles Up a Player A player in late position moved all in for 93,000 and it was folded to Eric Baldwin in the small blind. Baldwin tanked before finally moving all in over the top to force the big blind out. Baldwin’s opponent tabled the Q Twitter Accounts Bernard Lee Player Tags: Eric Buchman, Johnny Chan, Fabrice Soulier, Steve Billirakis, Bernard Lee, Brian Rast, Shannon Shorr, Eric Baldwin, Lauren Kling Level Five Hour Two Update: Baron Climbing The RanksJul 09, '10 Blinds: 200-400 with a 50 ante Players Remaining: 2,412 out of 2,412 Average Chip Count: Card Player Chip Counts Justin Marchand – 23,400 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Corwin Cole – 228,200 Notable Eliminations: Mike Sexton Big Hands:
Dennis Phillips got his last 9,225 in the middle preflop with A The flop was K A few hands later, Phillips raised to 1,180 from the hijack and the player in the big blind made the call. The flop came down A Phillips bet 1,500 and the big blind check-raised to 3,300. Phillips thought for a bit and then repopped it to 7,500. The big blind thought for a few moments of his own and then released his hand, turning over the A Phillips took in the pot and he was at 24,000. Ho Can’t Call Picking up the action after the flop came down J The turn was the J
After the flop came down 5 Seat 5 led out for 3,000 and Baldwin made the call again. The river was the 7 Baldwin did the same and seat 5 tabled Q “The curse is finally over,” Baldwin said to the ESPN crew surrounding the table. “I finally won one with you guys here.” He was at 70,000 after the hand. Cada Gives One Up Reigning champion Joe Cada was in the small blind heads up with the big blind. On a flop of 2 Cada made the call and the 6 Sexton Getting Short, Then Busts Mike Sexton made it 1,200 to go from under the gun and action folded around to the big blind, who called. The flop came 2
Isaac Baron called a large preflop raise from the player in seat 4 and saw a flop of K On the K The 5 Baron had around 134,000 in chips after the hand. Chan Picking Up Where He Left Off Johnny Chan left his day 1 as one of the tournament’s chip leaders. He picked up where he left off early in day 2a. Chan limped in from the small blind and the big blind checked the action. The flop ran 6 It was a small win, but Chan now has around 164,000 in chips.
A player raised to 1,200 preflop and Scotty Nguyen made the call from the small blind. Darryll Fish also called from the big blind and the three players saw a flop of J All three players checked and the turn was the A His opponent mucked the A Somerville Surges All we were able to see was Jason Somerville showing down 3 Somerville is now up to 87,400 with his newly acquired chips. Tiffany Michelle Doubles There were four limpers in front of her and then Tiffany Michelle raised to 3,500 on the button. The player in the small blind made it 5,700 more to Michelle and she quickly called. Michelle said call and then realized that she had said call and lamented how she had intended to move in for her remaining 5,500. The flop was 4 Michelle tabled 7 Player Twitter Accounts: Barry Shulman Player Tags: Scotty Nguyen, Johnny Chan, Mike Sexton, Maria Ho, Jason Somerville, Isaac Baron, Eric Baldwin, Tiffany Michelle, Dennis Phillips, Joseph Cada Level One Hour Two Update: Dario Minieri EliminatedJul 07, '10 Blinds: 50-100 Average Chip Counts 30,000 Notable Chip Counts: David Williams – 80,000 Card Player Chip Counts: Steve Murphy — 37,800 Notable Eliminations: Dario Minieri Big Hands:
The player in seat 2 raised to 325 preflop and Paul Magrill made the call from late position. David Oppenheim also made the call and the flop came down 7 Seat 2 and Magrill each checked and Oppenheim bet 500. Seat 2 made the call but Magrill got out of the way. The turn was the 8 The river was the Q “You got it,” Oppenheim said as he tapped the table. “No pair.” Seat 2 tabled 7 Eric Baldwin Loses Minimum Picking up the action on the flop, the board read K The player in seat 7 checked and Eric Baldwin did the same. The A Seat 7 then tabled K Chau Giang Takes One Off Antonio Esfandiari On a board of A Christian Harder Wins with Set-Over-Set Christian Harder bet a Q
A player from middle position bet 4,000 on a J Gray Cuts Isaia With His Diamonds Picking up the action after the board had run out J Jason Gray fired 4,000 and Alessio Isaia decided to look him up. Gray turned over Q
The player in seat 2 raised to 300 and Matt Hawrilenko made the call from the button. The blinds also called and the flop came down A Action was checked to Hawrilenko and he bet 500. Everyone threw in the call and the turn was the 2 Action checked to seat 2 and he bet 800. Hawrilenko folded and the blinds followed suit as seat 2 took the pot. Hawrilenko was at 33,000 after the hand. Sexton Not Happy About His Runner-Runner Flush Mike Sexton was heads up with the player in seat 3 when the flop came J The river was the 6 As Sexton thought it over seat 3 said, “Runner-runner,” and smiled, alluding to the runner-runner flush he had made. Sexton responded with, “I see that. The thing is, I made runner-runner.” Sexton eventually called, and sure enough both players were telling the truth. Their hands: Seat 3: A Seat 3 showed the ace-high flush and Sexton’s 10-high flush was no good. He sighed and turned to watch the conclusion of the Germany-Spain World Cup action. He had around 26,400 in chips after the loss. Jaka Makes Big Lay Down Entering the action late, Faraz Jaka looked pained as he pondered his opponent’s bet of 13,000 on a board of A CardPlayer TV Day 1C Begins Player Tags: Antonio Esfandiari, Chau Giang, Matt Hawrilenko, Jason Gray, Dario Minieri, Eric Baldwin, Christian Harder, Alessio Isaia |
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Level 26 Hour Two: Clements Chips Up, Grinder Slips a BitJul 16, '10 Blinds: 25,000-50,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 64 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 3,378,000 Card Player Chip Counts: Tony Dunst – 1,020,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Theo Jorgensen – 10,900,000 Notable Eliminations: 72. Habib Khanis – $114,205 Player Twitter Accounts Big Hands:
On a flop of 10 Subramaniam checked and Clements bet 200,000. Subramaniam made it 500,000 to go and Clements didn’t go anywhere, as he tossed in the extra 300,000. The river was the the 7 Subramaniam showed K Lee Gets Best of Kostritsyn Alexander Kostritsyn raised from early position and Redmond Lee made the call from the big blind. The two saw a flop heads-up of 6 Lee led out into the preflop raiser for 175,000. Kostritsyn made the call and the J Parras Knocks Out Two Richard Morgan raised under-the-gun and Habib Khanis three-bet all-in for his last 650,000. Eduardo Parras moved all-in for his 1,500,000 and Richard Morgan made the call, putting his own 1,300,000 stack into the middle. Parras had both players called as all three hands were turned face-up. Morgan: K The flop came 9
Michael Mizrachi fired 200,000 on a fop of 6 Mizrachi checked and Sijpkens moved all-in for 1,375,000 and Mizrachi made the call. Mizrachi tabled 7 The river was the J Levy KO’s Canali Pierre Canali got all-in preflop against Adam Levy. Levy tabled K Baldwin Climbing We caught up with this hand on the river with Ismail Erkenov leading out for 200,000 with the board reading 7 After a while, Erkenov finally made the call and Baldwin pulled his chips back and tabled his hand as he showed J
Duy Le raised to 120,000 from middle position and John Racner three-bet to 310,000. Le made the call and they saw a flop of 10 The turn was the 7 Le showed 10 Marcel Cole Eliminated Marcel moved his last 905,000 into the middle from under-the-gun with 8 The board ran out A
John Dolan rasied to 115,000 and Edward Ochana made the call. Peter Jetten then squeezed all-in for 780,000. Dolan made the call and Ochana got out of the way. Jetten tabled Q Baldwin Drops a Big One On a flop of 9 The turn was the Q Baldwin tabled 10 Meenakshi Subramaniam Eliminated On the turn the board read 6 Subramaniam moved all-in for 900,000 and Nguyen made the call. Subramaniam showed 8
Peter Jetten raised on the button to 125,000. Jacobo Fernandez three-bet to 475,000 from the big blind. Jetten moved all-in and Fernandez made the call. Fernandez showed J Jetten couldn’t find a five on the turn or the river and slipped to 900,000. Fernandez doubled up to 1,600,000. John Armbrust Eliminated John Armbrust made it 125,000 under-the-gun and Redmond Lee moved all-in on the button. Armbrust made the call and was at risk of elimination. Armbrust showed A Player Tags: Michael Mizrachi, Scott Clements, Peter Jetten, Duy Le, Eric Baldwin, John Racener, Adam Levy, Alexander Kostritsyn Level 25, Hour One: Eric Baldwin Doubles Up, Jorgensen Takes Chip LeadJul 15, '10 Blinds: 20,000-40,000 with a 5,000 ante Players Remaining: 85 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 2,587,882 Card Player Chip Counts: Tony Dunst – 2,360,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Theo Jorgensen – 8,060,000 Notable Eliminations: 86. Juha Helppi — $79,806 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Jeff Banghart moved all in for 435,000 from the cutoff and Bryn Kenney made the call from the button. The blinds mucked and the hands were turned. Kenney: A Kenney was dominating but the board ran out 10 Carroll Busts James Carroll moved all in and Evgeny Shnayder made the call, turning over A The board ran out 10
Eric Baldwin doubled through Andrew Brokos at the end of the previous level and he just did it again. Brokos raised to 80,000 from the button and Eric Baldwin moved in for 780,000 from the small blind. Brokos made the call and the hands were shown. Brokos: A The flop came J Clements Has Aces Cracked Scott Clements raised to 95,000 preflop and Brian Jensen moved all in for 680,000. Clements snapped him off with pocket aces. Jensen held pocket tens and the flop fell K
Picking up the action on the turn, the board read 7 Theo Jorgensen snap-called and turned over K The river was the 4 Left In The Deck Last Level Of The Night The players were originally scheduled to play five complete levels today. However, Jack Effel has announced that this will be the last level of the night, meaning the field will exit one hour earlier than expected. Furthermore, if the players begin to bust at an accelerated rate, play may be stopped even earlier. The word around the Amazon Room is that the target number of players to start Day 7 on Friday is 81, which was about 15 eliminations away at the start of the level. Player Tags: James Carroll, Theo Jorgensen, Scott Clements, Andrew Brokos, Eric Baldwin, Bryn Kenney Level 24, Hour Two: Dunst Doubles UpJul 15, '10 Note: Players have gone on an unscheduled 20-minute break to color up the T1,000 chips. Blinds: 15,000-30,000 with a 4,000 ante Players Remaining: 96 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 2,287,187 Card Player Chip Counts: Andrew Brokos – 2,000,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. John Racener – 6,985,000 Notable Eliminations: 100. Christian Harder — $57,102 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Picking up the action on a flop of J Chamberlain: A Chamberlain held the aces but needed to fade the spade draw. The turn was harmless with the 10 Jetten Takes One Duy Le raised to 90,000 and Peter Jetten made the call. Both players saw the flop come down K Jetten made the call and the turn was the 6
Tony Dunst raised preflop from under the gun and Edward Ochana made the call in the small blind. The flop came down 7 Dunst: 9 Ochana flopped top pair but Dunst was ahead with the overpair. The board finished off A Jorgensen Takes One Down Picking up the action on the turn, the board read 10 Jorgensen fired 300,000 and was called again. Jorgensen then showed A
Getty Mattingsley was all in for 761,000 preflop and Alexander Kostritsyn made the call. Here were the hands. Kostritsyn: A It was a race and Kostritsyn jumped ahead on the Q Bardah With Some Aggression Ronnie Bardah raised to 80,000 and Gabriel Alarie made it 280,000 to go from the small blind. The big blind mucked and the action was back on Bardah. He shoved for 1.12 million and Alarie took a session in the tank. He decided to release his hand and Bardah took a nice pot without the bother of a flop. He was up to 1.5 million.
Eric Baldwin raised to 76,000 preflop and David Baker moved all in from the small blind for 581,000. Baldwin made the call and the hands were turned over. Baldwin: A The race was on and each player got a piece of the Q A few hands later, Baldwin moved in for 340,000 and Andrew Brokos made the call. Brokos turned over A Player Tags: Theo Jorgensen, Ronnie Bardah, Peter Jetten, Eric Baldwin, Gabriel Alarie, Tony Dunst, Alexander Kostritsyn, Brandon Steven, Getty Mattingsley, Daniel Chamberlain Level 23, Hour Two: Dunst Loses Heartbreaker, Last Woman Standing EliminatedJul 15, '10 Blinds: 12,000-24,000 with a 3,000 ante Players Remaining: 115 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 1,909,304 Card Player Chip Counts: Andrew Brokos – 1,230,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Joseph Cheong – 5,540,000 Notable Eliminations: 116. Robert Mizrachi — $57,102 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Ian Gordon moved all in for a little over 1 million and Tony Dunst snapped him off. Gordon turned over A Another player at the table announced he mucked the case A Dunst was drawing dead and to add insult to injury, the board finished off 2 Guan Eliminated Javier Martinez raised to 36,000 from the cutoff and Mozheng Guan repopped to 84,000 from the button. Martinez called and the flop came down A Martinez led with 110,000 and Guan moved in for 480,000. Martinez made the call and turned over A The turn was the 3
Breeze Zuckerman, the last woman standing, moved all in preflop and Eric Baldwin looked her up from the button. Baldwin: A Baldwin had Zuckerman in bad shape, but the flop gave her some help when it fell K Baker Doubles Up David Baker moved all in for 200,000 preflop and David Assouline looked him up. Baker turned over 10 The board ran out Q
Sebastian Panny and Matthew Jarvis tangled in a huge pot that saw Panny all in preflop. Here were their hands: Panny: 10 Panny was in trouble and the flop came K Panny, who was in the top 10 chip counts early in the day, was sent crashing to the rail. Jarvis was at 4.6 million. Pettit Gets Short, Then Busts Michael Pettit found the bulk of his chips in the middle against Jacob Tyler after the flop fell K Pettit was left with just 8,000 after Tyler was all in and Pettit tabled 10 The flush or straight never came and Pettit lost the pot. He would bust a few hands later.
Gualter Salles was all in preflop against Adam Levy. The cards were then turned over. Salles: A Levy was dominating and he put a vice-grip on the hand when the flop fell Q
The 2010 Main Event is down to one Mizrachi brother. Robert Mizrachi moved in for his last 196,000 from under the gun and Josue Sauvageau made the call from the cutoff. Mizrachi: A Mizrachi was dominated and the flop brought no help as it fell J Player Tags: Robert Mizrachi, Eric Baldwin, Ian Gordon, Gualter Salles, Adam Levy, Tony Dunst, Javier Martinez, Sebastian Panny, Mozheng Guan, Breeze Zuckerman, Josue Sauvageau Level 22, Hour Two: Theo Tran Doubles UpJul 15, '10 Blinds: 10,000-20,000 with a 3,000 ante Players Remaining: 134 out of 7,319 Average Chip Count: 1,638,582 Card Player Chip Counts: Andrew Brokos – 1,305,000 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Robert Pisano – 5,500,000 Notable Eliminations: 140. Phil Galfond — $57,102 Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Big Hands:
Robert Pisano raised to 40,000 preflop and Theo Tran moved all in for 155,000. Pisano made the call and the cards were turned over. Tran: A The classic race was on and the flop fell J Savage Eliminated Matthew Schreiber raised from the button and Craig Savage moved in for 375,000. Schreiber made the call and turned over A Baldwin Needs No Flop Breeze Zuckerman raised to 61,000 and Eric Baldwin raised to 300,000 from the small blind. Zuckerman mucked her hand, flashing the A
Picking up the action after the turn, the board read J Lodden bet 300,000 and Eriquezzo looked him up one last time. Lodden turned over A Lodden scored the pot and he was at 2.6 million while Eriquezzo was at 945,000. Rainey Betters Affleck Nicholas Rainey raised to 47,000 and Matt Affleck made the call from the big blind. The flop fell J Affleck called and the river was the K
Picking up the action on the flop, the board read K The turn was the K Mizrachi’s aggression gave him the pot and he was up to 5.35 million. Brikis Knocks Out Pellegrino Picking up the action on the flop, the board read Q Brikis: 9 Brikis flopped a set to better Pellegrino’s top pair. The board finished off Q
Phil Galfond made it 48,000 to go from under the gun. Josue Sauvageau made it 128,000 and the action came back around to Galfond. Galfond then took a long tank session, resulting in the clock getting called on him. He decided to move all in and Sauvageau snapped it off. Galfond: 6 Galfond was in deep trouble and the board ran out K Card Player TV Day 6 Of The Main Event Gets Underway Player Tags: Michael Mizrachi, Phil Galfond, Theo Tran, Eric Baldwin, Johnny Lodden, Nick Rainey, Matt Affleck, Josh Brikis, Bryan Pellegrino Level 21 Hour One Update: Scotty Nguyen EliminatedJul 14, '10 Blinds: 8,000-16,000 with a 2,000 ante 1. Evan Lamprea — 3,900,000 Praz Bansi
Garrett Adelstein opend to 36,000 from the cutoff and Johnny Chan three-bet to 101,000 from the button. Action was folded back to Adelstein and he reraised all in for 970,000. Chan called with the K Serge Didisheim Eliminated Serge Didisheim moved all in for 195,000. Manuel Davidian called with the A Marceo Dabus Doubles Up Marceo Dabus was all in preflop for 395,000 with the A
Robert Mizrachi bet 42,000 from middle position and Matthew Reed three-bet to 115,000. Mizrachi made the call. The flop came J Peter Jetten Eliminates a Player Laurentius Sloot was all in for 124,000 with the A Scotty Nguyen Eliminated Scotty Nguyen was getting short when he moved all in preflop with A-J. Unfortunately for Nguyen, he ran into the pocket kings of his opponent. The board offered no help and he was gone.
On an A Sam Haddad Eliminated Sam Haddad moved all in preflop for 167,000. Duy Le called. Haddad tabled the A Eric Baldwin Doubles Up a Player Jean Pasqualini shoved from the small blind for 165,000. Eric Baldwin called in the big blind. Baldwin tabled the K Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Player Tags: Robert Mizrachi, Scotty Nguyen, Johnny Chan, Serge Didisheim, Peter Jetten, Eric Baldwin, Praz Bansi Level 18 Hour One Update: Jason Mercier and Vanessa Selbst EliminatedJul 14, '10 Blinds: 4,000-8,000 with a 1,000 ante 1. Daniel Chamberlain – 2,460,000 Bart Hanson Big Hands:
We caught up with the hand on the river with over 150,000 in the middle and the board reading A The bet sent his opponent into the tank and the ESPN cameras rushed over to film the action. After a minute or two of thinking, his opponent slid out a call and Baldwin tabled the A Baldwin is up to 625,000 with that pot. Jean-Robert Bellande Rivers a Straight We caught up with the action on the river with Jean-Robert Bellande betting 85,000 on a board of 5 “I’ve been planning this out for a while now,” Bellande said. “You get it in behind and just get there and boom! You have a stack.” Bellande does have a stack as he sits with 530,000. Sam Farha Doubles Up Sam Farha moved all in for 85,000 and Isaac Baron made the call. Farha exposed the A Jason Mercier Doubles Up Robert Mizrachi, Eliminated Shortly Thereafter Jason Mercier bet 19,000 from middle position and Robert Mizrachi three-bet to 55,000 on the button. Mercier moved all in and Mizrachi called 338,000 for his tournament life. Mizrachi exposed the K-K and was way ahead of the 5-5 of Mercier. The board ran out Q-10-8-K-9 and Mizrachi doubled to 690,000. Mercier was left with 133,000 after the hand. Later in the level, Jason Mercier open-shoved in late position with the A Bruce Buffer Eliminated With a board reading 10
Vanessa Selbst was down to about 150,000 when she shoved with the A Dan Lu Doubles Up a Player Dominykas Karmazinas shoved from early position for 55,000 and Dan Lu called on the button. Karmazinas was at risk with the A Jean-Robert Bellande Doubles Up an Opponent Jean Robert Bellande limped from late position and Alper Sar shoved for 80,000. Bellande called with the A
The flop read 8 Jacobs’ All-In Forces Folds Alex Jacobs raised to 18,000 from late position and was called by both blinds. The flop came 10 Jacobs is sitting with 200,000 after he stacked his newly found chips. Sammy Farha Crippled, Eliminated Ryan Milisits moved all-in for 102,000 from middle position and Sam Farha made the call from late position. Milisits showed A The board ran out 10 Left in the Deck Jean-Robert Has Ideas Jean-Robert was talking at his table about the ideas he has for the Tournament of Champions. He thinks that the more bracelets you have, the more chips you should add to your stack. He said that the tournament directors shot the idea down, but he thinks it would add a nice twist to the tournament and give people more incentives to win bracelets. Former Card Player Intern Crusing Jameson Singer, a former Card Player intern in 2006 currently is hovering around the 1 million chip mark. Singer now plays tournaments full-time online and is known as “TheDrake.” Player Twitter Accounts Jean-Robert Bellande Player Tags: Sam Farha, Jean-Robert Bellande, Bruce Buffer, Vanessa Selbst, Eric Baldwin, Dan Lu, Jason Mercier Level 17 Hour Two Update: Lots of Eliminations EarlyJul 14, '10 Blinds: 3,000-6,000 with a 1,000 ante 1. Tony Dunst – 1,470,000 Lauren Kling
Bernard Lee got his last 41,000 into the middle prefop against Dragan Galic. Galic tabled A Lee flopped a set and doubled up to 100,000 as the board ran out 8 Billirakis Scores an Early KO Jamie Robbins and Steve Billirakis got tangled up in a preflop raising war which led to Robbins committing the last of his chips in the middle and Billirakis making the call. Robbins tabled K-Q and Billirakis showed A Matros Crippled Compliments of a Cold Deck Matt Matros and Kevin Stani got all of Stani’s chips in the middle preflop. Matros showed K Matros was eliminated just an orbit later.
Andrew Jeter moved in his last 42,000 from the small blind after Johnny Chan had raised under-the-gun. Chan made the call and it was off to showdown. Jeter showed K Soulier Gone Fabrice Soulier moved all-in for his last 79,000 from the cutoff and David Emmons three-bet from the button to isolate and both blinds folded. Soulier was in trouble when Emmons showed A Buchman Eliminated as Rice Doubles Shawn Rice and Eric Buchman got into a prelflop battle with Rice and Buchman being on the button and in the big blind. They ended up getting all-in with very similar stack sizes. Buchman showed K The board ran out 5 Hougaard Slips Isaac Krantz moved all-in on a flop of J Hougaard showed pocket kings, but had to fade some cards when Krantz showed 5
Brian Rast raised from early position and Greg Schaefer three-bet from middle position. Rast made the call and the fop came Q The turn was the 10 David Peters Doubles Up David Peters got his stack of about 300,000 in preflop with the A Brett Richey Doubles Up A player in middle position bet 16,000 and Brett Richey moved all in for 209,000. His opponent went into the tank before eventually making the call. Richey exposed the A Shannon Shorr Eliminated On a board of K
Lauren Kling moved all in preflop for 52,000 with the A Eric Baldwin Doubles Up a Player A player in late position moved all in for 93,000 and it was folded to Eric Baldwin in the small blind. Baldwin tanked before finally moving all in over the top to force the big blind out. Baldwin’s opponent tabled the Q Twitter Accounts Bernard Lee Player Tags: Eric Buchman, Johnny Chan, Fabrice Soulier, Steve Billirakis, Bernard Lee, Brian Rast, Shannon Shorr, Eric Baldwin, Lauren Kling Level Five Hour Two Update: Baron Climbing The RanksJul 09, '10 Blinds: 200-400 with a 50 ante Players Remaining: 2,412 out of 2,412 Average Chip Count: Card Player Chip Counts Justin Marchand – 23,400 Tournament Leaderboard: 1. Corwin Cole – 228,200 Notable Eliminations: Mike Sexton Big Hands:
Dennis Phillips got his last 9,225 in the middle preflop with A The flop was K A few hands later, Phillips raised to 1,180 from the hijack and the player in the big blind made the call. The flop came down A Phillips bet 1,500 and the big blind check-raised to 3,300. Phillips thought for a bit and then repopped it to 7,500. The big blind thought for a few moments of his own and then released his hand, turning over the A Phillips took in the pot and he was at 24,000. Ho Can’t Call Picking up the action after the flop came down J The turn was the J
After the flop came down 5 Seat 5 led out for 3,000 and Baldwin made the call again. The river was the 7 Baldwin did the same and seat 5 tabled Q “The curse is finally over,” Baldwin said to the ESPN crew surrounding the table. “I finally won one with you guys here.” He was at 70,000 after the hand. Cada Gives One Up Reigning champion Joe Cada was in the small blind heads up with the big blind. On a flop of 2 Cada made the call and the 6 Sexton Getting Short, Then Busts Mike Sexton made it 1,200 to go from under the gun and action folded around to the big blind, who called. The flop came 2
Isaac Baron called a large preflop raise from the player in seat 4 and saw a flop of K On the K The 5 Baron had around 134,000 in chips after the hand. Chan Picking Up Where He Left Off Johnny Chan left his day 1 as one of the tournament’s chip leaders. He picked up where he left off early in day 2a. Chan limped in from the small blind and the big blind checked the action. The flop ran 6 It was a small win, but Chan now has around 164,000 in chips.
A player raised to 1,200 preflop and Scotty Nguyen made the call from the small blind. Darryll Fish also called from the big blind and the three players saw a flop of J All three players checked and the turn was the A His opponent mucked the A Somerville Surges All we were able to see was Jason Somerville showing down 3 Somerville is now up to 87,400 with his newly acquired chips. Tiffany Michelle Doubles There were four limpers in front of her and then Tiffany Michelle raised to 3,500 on the button. The player in the small blind made it 5,700 more to Michelle and she quickly called. Michelle said call and then realized that she had said call and lamented how she had intended to move in for her remaining 5,500. The flop was 4 Michelle tabled 7 Player Twitter Accounts: Barry Shulman Player Tags: Scotty Nguyen, Johnny Chan, Mike Sexton, Maria Ho, Jason Somerville, Isaac Baron, Eric Baldwin, Tiffany Michelle, Dennis Phillips, Joseph Cada Level One Hour Two Update: Dario Minieri EliminatedJul 07, '10 Blinds: 50-100 Average Chip Counts 30,000 Notable Chip Counts: David Williams – 80,000 Card Player Chip Counts: Steve Murphy — 37,800 Notable Eliminations: Dario Minieri Big Hands:
The player in seat 2 raised to 325 preflop and Paul Magrill made the call from late position. David Oppenheim also made the call and the flop came down 7 Seat 2 and Magrill each checked and Oppenheim bet 500. Seat 2 made the call but Magrill got out of the way. The turn was the 8 The river was the Q “You got it,” Oppenheim said as he tapped the table. “No pair.” Seat 2 tabled 7 Eric Baldwin Loses Minimum Picking up the action on the flop, the board read K The player in seat 7 checked and Eric Baldwin did the same. The A Seat 7 then tabled K Chau Giang Takes One Off Antonio Esfandiari On a board of A Christian Harder Wins with Set-Over-Set Christian Harder bet a Q
A player from middle position bet 4,000 on a J Gray Cuts Isaia With His Diamonds Picking up the action after the board had run out J Jason Gray fired 4,000 and Alessio Isaia decided to look him up. Gray turned over Q
The player in seat 2 raised to 300 and Matt Hawrilenko made the call from the button. The blinds also called and the flop came down A Action was checked to Hawrilenko and he bet 500. Everyone threw in the call and the turn was the 2 Action checked to seat 2 and he bet 800. Hawrilenko folded and the blinds followed suit as seat 2 took the pot. Hawrilenko was at 33,000 after the hand. Sexton Not Happy About His Runner-Runner Flush Mike Sexton was heads up with the player in seat 3 when the flop came J The river was the 6 As Sexton thought it over seat 3 said, “Runner-runner,” and smiled, alluding to the runner-runner flush he had made. Sexton responded with, “I see that. The thing is, I made runner-runner.” Sexton eventually called, and sure enough both players were telling the truth. Their hands: Seat 3: A Seat 3 showed the ace-high flush and Sexton’s 10-high flush was no good. He sighed and turned to watch the conclusion of the Germany-Spain World Cup action. He had around 26,400 in chips after the loss. Jaka Makes Big Lay Down Entering the action late, Faraz Jaka looked pained as he pondered his opponent’s bet of 13,000 on a board of A CardPlayer TV Day 1C Begins Player Tags: Antonio Esfandiari, Chau Giang, Matt Hawrilenko, Jason Gray, Dario Minieri, Eric Baldwin, Christian Harder, Alessio Isaia |
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Where’s Hellmuth
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and Wolak was eliminated.
So Long Sammy
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Eric Baldwin was short stacked and all in holding Q-J, but up against the K-Q of David Oppenheim.
Baldwin flopped an open-ended straight draw and turned a pair, but failed to catch up to Oppenheim’s hand. Oppenheim will now face the winner between Sam Trickett and Carlos Mortensen.
The bustouts just keep on coming. We’ve managed to lost 17 players in a 25-minute span. We’re still working on getting a list of those players, but the line at the payout desk is too long to infiltrate.
A player raised and another player moved all in behind him for 44,800. Eric Baldwin then moved all in to isolate.
Blinds: 150-300 with a 25 ante
Clements Takes One From Subramaniam
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, Meenakshi Subramamaniam bet 175,000 into Scott Clements. Scott Clements made the call and they saw the 7
and both players checked.
Sijpkens Doubles Through the Grinder
Racener Straightens Out
Jetten Finds a Double
Jetten Doubles Up Fernandez
Kenney Can’t Finish The Kill
Baldwin Returns To The Bank Of Brokos
Boom
Chamberlain Bounced Out
Dunst Doubles Up
Kostritsyn Scores The KO
Panny Rides Into The Sunset
Ruthless
Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
Tran Stays Afloat
Lodden Takes It With Aces
Mizrachi Keeps Rolling
Galfond Hits The Rail
Johnny Chan Eliminates a Player
Robert Mizrachi Loses a Pot
Johnny Lodden Doubles Up
Eric Baldwin Chips Up With River Value Bet
Vanessa Selbst Eliminated
Lee Finds a Double
The Johnny Chan Show Continues on Day Five
Rast Sent Packing
Lauren Kling Eliminated
Phillips Scores an Early Double And Keeps Going
Baldwin Finally Gives The Cameras Something Positive
Baron Makes Big Call, Wins Massive Pot
Scotty Takes One Down
Oppenheim Gets Caught
Dario Minieri Eliminated
Hawrilenko Can’t Steal It